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Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 1 year
Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 1 year
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Superb speed, especially in Windows 7.
Cons: Hit & Miss usability.
Like "Disappointed", I bought three of these myself, and one worked beautifully in a S939 BioStar 6100-M9. A second card in the same type of board works, but when I tried using that same card, and the third one I bought, in a 1U SuperMicro P4D6C system, and in a Gigabyte S939 K8 system, both systems would continuously drop packets and fail transfers, making any kind of consistent network transfers impossible. NICs on these systems are not an issue, because other cards work fine.
Lack of updated drivers or explanation of issues encountered with reliability from Encore.
Other Thoughts: I decided to keep all three since I have five systems I regularly use, and fortunately, I have three that will work with this card.
Although the cards did fail miserably in multiple systems, when they work, they are outstanding. I can hit between 60-70MB/sec over a SATA1 RAID0 pulling down to a SATA2 HDD.
It does not appear to make any difference in using the Windows 7-detected RealTek driver, and the bundled 1320 driver included on the disc - there are no appreciable differences in reliability in systems in which the card did not work, and no performance differences in the systems that did work.
Tested operating systems included Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP2, Windows 7 32-bit, Windows 7 64-bit, and Ubuntu Linux v8.10, 9.04, and 9.10.
This card appears to have issues with certain motherboards, as no combination of the three cards worked in any of the systems that did not like them.
Overall, a great card for the price, but with finicky hardware relia
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Disappointed
Reviewed By: Boarsmouth on 2/2/2010
Tech Level: high - Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Price.
Cons: I bought two of these cards. After I installed the first card into a Dell Inspiron 530, the machine would not boot, making a strange clicking noises. I removed the first card and installed the second one. This time the Dell successfully booted into Windows 7 and installed it's drivers. After 12 different attempted network transfers every transfer dropped, saying connection was lost. I sent both back to newegg. I don't recommend these NICs at all.
Other Thoughts: The problem did not appear to be driver related. The first card crashed the system, however, the second card, at first,appeared to intall correctly, but would constantly lose it's connection. In addition, optaining a IP address was slow. Horrible NIC!
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Work !!!
Reviewed By: on 1/26/2010
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Work with Windows 7 Ultimate right out of the box
Cons: None
Other Thoughts: Much improvement over my onboard ethernet which was 100 mbps
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Model
Brand
ENCORE
Model
ENLGA-1320
Spec
Standards
IEEE802.3, IEEE802.3u, IEEE802.3ab, IEEE802.3x
Speed
10/ 100/ 1000Mbps
Connectors
1 x RJ45
Interface
PCI
BUS
32-bit PCI 2.2
LEDs
10/100/1000Mbps; Activity, Link
Drivers
Windows 98SE/2000/ME/NT4.0/XP, Novell Netware (4.x/5.x/6.x) and Linux kernel 2.2.x and 2.4.x
Wake On LAN
No
Dimensions
4.9" x 4.7" x 0.8"
Features
Features
Supports auto-negotiation and parallel detection for speed (10/100/1000Mbps) and duplex mode (Half/Full) detection. Supports 32-Bit and 64-Bit PCI Adapter fault tolerance, supports Jumbo packets. VLAN and long frame support. Adaptive load balancing, link aggregation (port trunking), IEEE 802.3ab support. Plug and Play Installation Supports extensive LED indicators for network diagnostics.
Reviewed By: Separation | Anxiety on 2/5/2010
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
