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It should be, absolutely. You can double check the RAM against the QVL list, but I'd imagine 2x16GB DDR5-6000 won't be a problem at all.
Should be fine. With ram at above officially supported speeds, there's always some chance it might not work regardless of what the ram or mobo makers say. Still, 6000 is pretty safe in AM5 era. Above that gets much more risky.
"My internet is too fast" said no one ever.
It will be interesting what single endpoints there are out there capable of saturating it. Otherwise still good for multi-user.Because 2.5/5 standards came much later? Early mobos either stuck with gigabit or had to go 10. Once 2.5 started taking off that was far lower cost - for new equipment anyway. I'm not including those who buy used EOL enterprise equipment cheap.
As far as I can tell 5 was introduced by the same standard as 2.5, both in 2016 (link below). 10GbE copper was much older from 2006. I'm not looking at anything that isn't copper since that will never be mainstream in a consumer environment. The problem I was thinking of was that 10 copper being a much older standard, that old hardware could not support 2.5 and 5.
I had a quick look on Amazon UK. 2.5 NICs are very cheap, and the switches are plentiful. More expensive than gigabit of course, but lots of choice in unmanaged 5 and 8 port models.
I googled for reviews, but didn't find too much on it. There's some M.2 Network cards with it and PCIe NICs with 8126, but I didn't see any coverage on it in a motherboard. I'm sure your friend will be fine and get the throughput he's expecting with that schmmmmmokin' fast internet.
That's.......impossible to know this early in the game. Boards weren't available until 9/30. But Windows 11 did pick up on it and it worked out of the box in the two mobos I covered that have them.
