Reddit reviews TP-Link Wireless N300 PCI Adapter, 2.4GHz 300Mbps -(TL-WN851ND)

You may want to consider this powerline kit.

Disregard USB.

Verify you have pci slots.

http://amzn.com/B005NHIQ06

if you can find me a wifi card that can saturate the 1Gb/s bandwidth (and that's at the slowest configuration), you let me know because i want one too ;)

Anyway, pretty much any TP-link cards are good.

idk your budget, but https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Wireless-Express-Adapter-TL-WDN4800/dp/B007GMPZ0A/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_147_bs_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=0DV05YA0Y15599SSQ3AM

there's also the AC version for the best performace possible. (you'll need a AC capability wifi access point too)

https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Wireless-Adapter-300Mbps-TL-WN851ND/dp/B005NHIQ06/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1494535318&sr=1-3&keywords=tp+link+pci

if you want to utilize the pci slot. and don't want to spend $20 more.

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Buy an extension card or an adapter cable. With the card you'll get the actual USB 3.0 speed but with the cables it'll just be USB 2.0.

edit: You have to use a PCI Wifi card. Place the USB 3.0 header extension card in the newly freed pcie x1 slot.

There are these from intel that combines the two. Alernatively you could get the bluetooth, and wifi adapters seperately.

Thanks so this one should work fine?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005NHIQ06?vs=1

I've never used powerline adaptor, so I'm no help there. I have heard good things about it though. Sorry, but my brain is stuck in mini-itx mode. Since you're going atx, you'll have plenty of room for an adapter for a regular pci slot like this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005NHIQ06/ref=s9_acsd_newrz_hd_bw_bwfnj_c_x_w?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&pf_rd_r=WVXF7Z1BN71GVQ9NBNW0&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=dd09b0f1-e13d-5362-9dd9-11c17e837bd6&pf_rd_i=13983711 It just slides into a regular pci slot the same way a video card does.

Oh I thought that's what you were looking for lol. Meaning they're not interchangeable. You could get a PCI wireless card instead of PCIe. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005NHIQ06?cache=73a9a25957f6b6f2130f04738ba06ec3&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70&qid=1414943683&sr=8-7#ref=mp_s_a_1_7

This one, the motherboard didn't say anything about not being PCI compatable, but I can't find a slot that fits it.

Your choice is either a USB Wifi dongle, or a PCI Wifi card like this.

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If you've got a low profile bracket for your PCIE card you could try this adapter to plug it into one of the PCIE slots.

Non-mobile: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005NHIQ06?vs=1

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I'd get a conventional PCI 802.11n WiFi card with XP drivers (probably this one: https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Wireless-Adapter-300Mbps-TL-WN851ND/dp/B005NHIQ06). Dongles are going to suck because it's likely that your board has just USB 1.0, and then their range isn't usually that great.

Here is a PCI wifi card. As for PSU build quality, have a look at Tom's Hardware PSU tier list here and get something no lower than tier 3. Something like this should be great. Hope that helps!

https://www.amazon.com/PCE-N15-performance-Wireless-N-Transmit-interface/dp/B0053GR2YI/ref=sr_1_10?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1504034500&sr=1-10&refinements=p_n_feature_keywords_two_browse-bin%3A6011943011

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005NHIQ06/ref=psdc_13983711_t3_B0079XWMEI

https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Wireless-PCI-Express-Adapter-TL-WN781ND/dp/B0036AFAEW/ref=sr_1_4?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1504034500&sr=1-4&refinements=p_n_feature_keywords_two_browse-bin%3A6011943011

Not sure what the difference is between the two TP-Links are but get the newer one or the Asus

>What am I doing wrong here?

Nothing, assuming you've tried both 8X slots. Your motherboard's BIOS may not allow you to use a 1X PCI-E slotted card in an 8X slot. Gigabyte may have assumed that you were gonna place video cards in all of the PCI-E slots of that motherboard so its BIOS may not accommodate a wireless adapter in one of the 8X slots. I reread your post.

The second graphics card may keep the motherboard from detecting/operating the wireless adapter.

I'd switch to a PCI based wireless adapter and see if that helps. The PCI slot operates under a different subsystem than the PCI-E slots do, so installing a PCI card would have a greater chance of getting the card running without interference from PCI-E devices. I'd make sure there were device drivers for that card in whatever flavor of Windows you're running before I actually bought anything. I'd also update the BIOS to the last beta BIOS if I hadn't done that already.

Would this fit into that type of slot?

https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Wireless-Adapter-300Mbps-TL-WN851ND/dp/B005NHIQ06/ref=sr_1_58?keywords=pci+slot&qid=1559117564&s=gateway&sr=8-58

I put one of those in a computer I built, different model though. I used a 150Mbps card, which uses only PCI-E 4x. Yes, it's a wifi receiver. This is the one shown in the picture.

I would think that it would have better reception, simply due to the difference in antenna size.

My ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-E didn't come with Wifi. I bought this wifi card that works pretty well and is cheap
https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Wireless-Adapter-300Mbps-TL-WN851ND/dp/B005NHIQ06/ref=sr_1_12?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1517802013&sr=1-12&keywords=wifi+card

You can easily get one new online for your price range:

http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-WN851ND-Wireless-Adapter-Low-profile/dp/B005NHIQ06/

http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-WN751ND-Wireless-Adapter-Low-profile/dp/B005FUGPP4/

I actually have an extra 2-antenna PCI wifi card I can sell for cheap, but the problem is that the driver support stopped at Windows 7; the card still works but it uses default Windows drivers on Windows 8.

This looks like a decent card