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I am using the onboard lan in my new rig in my sig. No problems and seems quite fast. Steve
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Stiffler69 said:yea i use onboard but i found out it was my stupid router that overflooded and then disconnected
This is true, but you would slow your PCI bus down. i would gladly take a 3% hit on my processor these days. Maybe back in the day when processors were struggling to hit the 1ghtz I would have opted for a PCI network card, but not now. If someone is running a raid card this would slow up his H/D performance a great deal. Add on a nice sound card, modem, & a maybe a video capture card & your PCI bus would be completely choked.Onboard..... BUT if you have good Lan card, then use it for better system performance. Why?? Onboard Lan use as much as 3% of processor's brain to compress and decompress data.
ciku said:lol @ Alex... as long as u use the right drivers on ur onboard lan, it should be ok