are these chips supposed to get so hot that even with a heatsink they cant be touched??
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0-70c operating temperature according to the data sheet.
I wouldn't have thought it should be too hot to touch though. I've seen them in laptops and they aren't heatsinked.Attached Files -
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hmmm.
i have 2 pci cards.
one netgear - naked.
one chinese - with a sink and frankley better made.
i tested the chinese one and just idling for 15mins without any data transfer it was generating some serious heat - but worked fine when i fired up firefox for a test.
i think i'll dig the netgear out for a comparison.Last edited by stj; 09-05-2017, 11:19 AM.Comment
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the netgear was screwed,
but i decided to look at the regulators on the chinese one and the resistance between input and output was only a few k - very suspect.
they are 1117's - so i'll pull then in the next couple of days and meter them off-board.Comment
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Realtek cards are poor performers, but only saw then overheating after a lightning strike.Comment
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I've seen a lot of hearsay that rtl8169 chips are poor performers but no actual benchmarks. I do not expect it to match top cards but from my experience with them, they are more than "poor" - they're quite acceptable for many uses. Is there a benchmark where the rtl8169 is less than 60% the speed of another ethernet solution, and how often does that benchmark happen in real life?
Oh, and do not count rtl8169's put on PCI 32-bit/33MHz busses... that's known to be a bottleneck...Last edited by eccerr0r; 01-17-2018, 07:16 PM.Comment
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