Which one is better?
Same thing.wikipedia wrote:
A Network card, Network Adapter, NIC (network interface card) or LAN Adapter is a piece of computer hardware designed to allow computers to communicate over a computer network
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_card
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He prolly means KillerNIC. It has be proven Killer NIC not being beneficial at all
or maybe he means is it better to have a PCI network card, or to use the onboard LAN
if the speeds are the same, it doesn't matter.
This. I have no clue, but I doubt there is that much difference between the 2.JoshP wrote:
or maybe he means is it better to have a PCI network card, or to use the onboard LAN
As with any other component, it depends on the quality and the features. There are good onboard network chips, and there are good dedicated network cards. Typically, the chips you'll find onboard on most motherboards are really spartan, containing small buffers, simple circuitry, and very few features. Buying a dedicated card when you already have an onboard chip is something you wouldn't normally do unless you needed large buffers, hardware switching between bridged interfaces, CoS/QoS, 802.1q, 802.3ad, multilayer protocol offloading, 802.3u/x with optical PHY, pluggable tranceiver support, niche interfaces or other implementation-specific features.
If all you need is home connectivity, the onboard chip will do fine.
If all you need is home connectivity, the onboard chip will do fine.
ThisJoshP wrote:
or maybe he means is it better to have a PCI network card, or to use the onboard LAN
Swope wrote:
ThisJoshP wrote:
or maybe he means is it better to have a PCI network card, or to use the onboard LAN
steelie34 wrote:
if the speeds are the same, it doesn't matter.
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thisphishman420 wrote:
This. I have no clue, but I doubt there is that much difference between the 2.
Some of the simpler integrated ones put quite some load on the CPU when running at full speed. I have a cheap, cheap Realtek PCI 100Mb card, and some more expensive Intel ones. FTP transfer at full speed with the Realtek puts about 60% load on the CPU in my server (P3 1GHz), whilst the load with an Intel card is 15-30%.
However, using modern hardware, it doesn't really matter. Most cheap/integrated cards get good speeds, and with CPUs like Core 2 Duos, the load is perhaps 10% at most when transferring at full capacity.
However, using modern hardware, it doesn't really matter. Most cheap/integrated cards get good speeds, and with CPUs like Core 2 Duos, the load is perhaps 10% at most when transferring at full capacity.
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