Intel PWLA8391GTLBLK, Low Profile PCI Card
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Low Profile PCI Card
There are several different network interface cards that can be described as Intel Pro/1000 GT Desktop Adapters. The Intel PWLA8391GT, PWLA8391GTBLK, and PWLA8391GTLBLK NICs all have the same electronic specifications. The “BLK” cards come in packs of 20, though they may be sold individually.
The card advertised here is the GTLBLK. The “L” after “GT” stands for “Low Profile,” meaning that this card has a smaller form factor than a regular PCI card. Unless you are sure that your PC has a low-profile Micro-ATX or Flex-ATX or 2U case that requires low-profile cards, don’t buy this low profile NIC, buy a standard sized PWLA8391GT or PWLA8391GTBLK.
This card is not a server adapter, as another reviewer asserts. The Pro/1000 cards were designed as desktop adapters, as their product description indicates. The other reviewer also says that these cards do not run in PCs, but of course they do: they run in small PCs designed for small PCI cards.
The Intel Pro/1000 GT cards are great NICs, well supported and documented, very fast, extremely reliable, and amazingly inexpensive. They will communicate perfectly well with your 100Mbps NICs, until you upgrade everything to gigabit.
Update (2/6/2012): This item is currently on sale here for the lowest price I’ve seen. I also found some auctions for this item here.
The featured review for this product, Intel PWLA8391GTLBLK PRO/1000 GT Desktop Network Adapter Electronics, was written by Westlake.
The average rating for this item is out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.
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Reviews (3)
Lucas Scharf
March 10th, 2010 at 11:24 am
Low profile card!
This card works wonderfully, and the performance is great.
However, I accidentally ordered the low-profile version of the card, rather than the full-height version of the card — so my installation was a little hackneyed. Make sure you order the correct size for your case.
Westlake
March 16th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Low Profile PCI Card
Rated 5 stars.
Andrew Scardino
April 2nd, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Good product but no win 7 official support.
As the title suggests there are no official drivers win 7 even if he comes from a fine work. When you run automatic updates think you have a card for Win 2000 Pro when I win 7 Home Premium? In addition, it is very small so it would not fit in my office because the metal at very low track width of laptop so I had to bend on how to plug it into the slot! Works very well on the problem of hardware and drivers are what has been a star now!
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