Wits only that one card that shows problems. The card alone is not at issue. It's a system issue. You're a bit rash to blame the card considering that others have stable pings and that you're having trouble with other hardware: I was having reliability issues with the Realtek card on my Atom D525 b...

Well I found my bridge problem at least, it was my fault of course - completely missed the "BRIDGE=br0" in the network config for the card, lol. As for my ping issue, every other device on the network gets perfectly normal pings, its only that one card that shows problems. Anyway, I now have a PCIe ...

Nope its an LG 3D monitor and I tried HDMI and D-SUB, both the same. Ethernet is working now, seems I'm having issues getting br0 to work properly. However I am getting weird ping spikes now: 64 bytes from 192.168.1.152: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.469 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.152: icmp_req=2 ttl=64 ...

The lowest wattage so far as been 14W, but its averaging 15W. It DOES have a WiFi card in the full length mini PCIe slot which seems to get pretty hot itself, could draw up to 5W. Your brick could also be inefficient or your meter inaccurate. I also left "OS ACPI C3 Report" and "PCIe ASPM Support" ...

Got this board installed with Mageia 2 RC and not much luck at all. The lowest wattage so far as been 14W, but its averaging 15W. It DOES have a WiFi card in the full length mini PCIe slot which seems to get pretty hot itself, could draw up to 5W. I also left "OS ACPI C3 Report" and "PCIe ASPM Suppo...