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>it was a pain in the ass to add a 10gbps network card to my ATX motherboard because the best there is is a pcie 3.0 x4 card from tplink.
Because there are no chipsets. For consumer garbage, people want better wifi and no major internet provider does more than 1 gbit. If there's no demand, there won't be any new chipsets made. You could get around using a X550 card which was pcie 3.0 x4 but there won't be 4.0 x1 ones because enterprise space gives no fucks about that, they want 25GbE and 100GbE instead.
We only got to 2.5GbE becoming the standard in the last few years, and that was because both Realtek and Intel released a working chipset. And even then the Realtek one has shit drivers on anything other than Windows and the Intel one self imploded until they revised it. For 10GbE we have a single chipset that can do PCIE 4.0 x1 (or 3.0 x4, configurable), and that's the AQC113. Plus the majority of motherboards don't even have anything higher than pcie 3.0 on anything but the x16 and the m.2 slots either, so you need a higher end, latest generation board for pcie 4.0 x1. B850 or so at the minimum.
It's just too limited because there's no consumer need to drive up speeds.
