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Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Creative labs made shit audio chips, at least post isa, they never figured out pci at all. Haven't forgiven them for killing aureal either.
Turtle beach was quality, but overpriced and they completely focused on the pro market after a while, ignoring gaming.
Realtek makes garbage, I always bypass it with a good USB DAC (fiio usually) because the mobo manufacturers always route lines so it buzzed when the GPU started using power.
You are right that they killed the market, but only for people who don't care, and you can pick up a banging used mellanox for cheap that gives you excellent sriov.