Ethernet Cards

[rhyds]

The last time I bought a network card was for my work PC as it didn't have a gigabit ethernet card built in.

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

I remember when people were buying seperate Ethernet cards.
Now nearly every motherboard will have an ethernet port that is more than decent for the job and you won't see any real difference.

Yeah boards I buy these days usually have two, sometimes even four GigE ports built in and in extreme cases 2x10Gb ethernet onboard.

I still have piles of standalone FE/GE PCI cards lying around, not worth the effort selling them anymore...

That said, even the onboard Gigabit ethernet ports (I had two) on my 2006-era NForce 570 board have no problems maxing out wire speed. With an an ancient Athlon64 CPU I'm running it as my server and it's not even breaking a sweat at 940Mbps+ per port. That's a not particularly impressively specced network chip form eight years ago.

[alanbjames]

Im more than happy with the realtek 8111E chipset on my board i get around 19mb/s downloads on 152mb.

[qasdfdsaq]

You get 19mb/s on a 152mb/s service and you're more than happy? Man are you easily pleased.

Personally anything short of 152mb/s on a 152mb/s service would annoy me. Thankfully, I'm happy getting 940Mb/s.