I am thinking of buying Dell server with E5 CPU and either X520 NIC or Solaflare 5122.
If I buy X520 - Is there a tool or API to collect credible latency information on Windows without expensive setup involving 2 servers with 10GBe cards and a 10GBe switch.
If there is no tool perhaps there is some API Intel NIC exposes.
I can write a custom app on .NET to measure down to 1 microsecond (jitter will be large but I need somewhere to start).