- Aug 19, 2014
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So there's a lot of hoopla surrounding fancy NICs built-into the gaming motherboards. However, it is not currently an option for me to use ethernet, so I will need to either get a motherboard with built-in Wifi capability or get a Wireless Adapter (USB/PCIe). I am leaning towards the latter due to WiFI Mobos being really expensive for no apparent benefit over using a simple WiFi Adapter. That said, I have 3 questions regarding using a WiFi Adapter:
■ If you use a WiFI Adapter, does it still use the on-board NIC and simply just "adapt" the wireless signals for use with the NIC or does the WIFI Adapter contain it's own NIC and completely by-pass any networking
■ Is there a benefit for paying extra $$$ for built-in WIFI enabled board (vs WIFI)
■ If I get a PCIe Wireless Adapter, it would have to share bandwidth w/ my graphics card. This would most likely mean the graphics card can't utilize full 16x pci-lanes... Would this be an issue?
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