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by theandrewbailey 1527 days ago
That's what I did. A few months ago, I bought 2 10GbE NICs off Ebay to connect my main desktop and basement server directly. I already had cat 6a running between them.

Some advice: make sure you know the form factor of your NICs. I accidentally bought FlexibleLOM cards. They look suspiciously like PCIe x8, but won't quite fit. FlexibleLOM to PCIe x8 adapters are cheap though.