Ethernet Card or Onboard?

[TxAMD]

When gamming, will you have better performance using an ethernet card or using the ethernet that comes with the mobo?

 

[R0CK3TM4NN]

It actually won't make a different which ethernet you use.

Think of it this way:
Internet gaming requires very little bandwidth compared to what the ethernet card can handle (even a 10 megabit card is fast enough to handle the 5-10 K/s required to play a game). A PCI based ethernet card is only using a fraction of the PCI bus bandwidth available. Likewise, an onboard ethernet connection has no speed advantages over a PCI ethernet connection, unless of course the onboard ethernet is gigabit.

 

[Syx]

What really matters is the quality and latency of it, but modern integrated ethernet is just as good and if not better than most ethernet cards.

 

[TxAMD]

thanks, I guess I'll just remove my ethernet card to free up some room.

 

[PAWO]

I only use an ethernet card in my pc because I don't have onboard....most of ours (even my file/webserver) use their onboard nVidia ethernet....my friend's pc has triple networking, its crazy, he has a MN-720 802.11g wireless card, and the ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe with the dual network ports (one is gigabit).....lol yeah