Asus pce-ac66 pre-order for 12/10 release

[KMac]

I thought some of you might want to know Newegg has this available as a pre-order with a release date listed as 12/10 and a price of $99.99. It looks like it has a pretty good heatsink on it too.

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[clintb]

I thought some of you might want to know Newegg has this available as a pre-order with a release date listed as 12/10 and a price of $99.99. It looks like it has a pretty good heatsink on it too.

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Nice find! Now if only Asus would get the AC version of the EA-N66 going.

 

[RMerlin]

No half-measure there - looks like they went for a full 1300 Mbps support. Nice.

 

[scottegos2]

No half-measure there - looks like they went for a full 1300 Mbps support. Nice.

Well, maybe 3/4-measure. I notice that it's only PCI-e x1, so it's bandwidth-limited to 250MB/s. Admittedly, that's more than any real-world scenario, but doesn't quite get you to 1300 Mbp/s, even in theory.

 

[RMerlin]

Well, maybe 3/4-measure. I notice that it's only PCI-e x1, so it's bandwidth-limited to 250MB/s. Admittedly, that's more than any real-world scenario, but doesn't quite get you to 1300 Mbp/s, even in theory.

250 MB/s * 8 bits = 2000 Mbits. More than enough for 1300 Mbits networking.

Plus, if that's PCI-Express 2.0, you can double the bandwidth, for 4000 Mbits per lane.

 

[RMerlin]

Tim, can we assume you're going to give this a good test run for us?

 

[ihaveworms]

Looks like the release date has been moved to 12/14/2012. I preordered one tonight to put in my HTPC.

 

[jbd5010]

Newegg originally had release date as today (12/21/12), but now it shows 12/31/12.

 

[emax.b]

Other info here