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PCI ethernet vs. Onboard

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Which do you recomend? Ive got a bunch of extra PCI network cards laying around and was wondering if sticking one in and disabling the onboard one will free up some resources, reduce cpu cycles, bandwidth, etc., or is the onboard NIC pretty efficient as is? Im using an nf7-s. The types of nics i have laying around are as follows
3com etherlink 10/100 PCI (3c905c-TXM)
D-Link DFE-500TX Rev-c6
Netgear FA310TX Rev-D1 (on pretty blue PCB ;)

eh? advice?
 
its really not worth taking up a PCI slot. you may free up some CPU cycles but most likely there will be 0 difference, except youll have something in your PCI slot.
 
dont think youll even notice or see a difference.

i remeber back in the day people thought it was stupid moving the ide controllers onboard to the motherboard. onboard stuff isnt as bad as it use to be. Granite i would never use onboard sound or video.
 
Originally posted by Filter
dont think youll even notice or see a difference.

i remeber back in the day people thought it was stupid moving the ide controllers onboard to the motherboard. onboard stuff isnt as bad as it use to be. Granite i would never use onboard sound or video.
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The nforce IGP isn't that bad, it can run UT at decent res and framerate, And soundstorm and the VIA envy chips rival lots of add-on soundcards
 
Originally posted by ciggy50
who's 'granite'? and what do you have against onboard sound?
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sounds like how my father would try to spell granted. LOL
 
For gigabit ethernet, I would recommend onboard over PCI because the bandwithd of gigabit ethernet is more than the bandwidth of standard 32-bit 33 MHz PCI. For 10/100 it depends on the specific chips involved. There are some high end cards which will offload some processing to the NIC. None of your cards are like that, so there's really no benefit to you with using a PCI card.

Overall, onboard networking isn't going to require any more or less work of the CPU than a PCI card. You can saturate multiple 100MB networks with that motherboard, so bandwidth is not an issue.

I don't know which network chip is used on that particular motherboard. If it's a good one, I would use onboard. If the chip sucks, I'd use a PCI card.
 
If it says Realtek on the on-board interface, I'll use a PCI adapter. I've never had good luck with Realteks. Of course, for PCI cards I only use Intel or 3Com...
 
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