Can I put a NIC card on my Motherboard?

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I have a B150M Bazooka MSI. I have a 1070, uninstalled my network drivers and was wondering if i could install a NIC card. Also, do I just connect an ethernet cord to the NIC card or something? thanks
 
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" . . . my mother board has one pci-e slot and my gpu is in it's place"

That motherboard should have two PCI-E slots (one @ x16 and one @ x1).

If your graphics card is PCI-E x1, you can stick it the x16 slot (yes it will still work), leaving the x1 slot free for NIC.
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I uninstalled my netork drivers and it is in Deep Sleep apparently. I posted information on it before but no one helped... tried everything, it won't work. Also, my mother board has one pci-e slot and my gpu is in it's place.
 
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" . . . my mother board has one pci-e slot and my gpu is in it's place"

That motherboard should have two PCI-E slots (one @ x16 and one @ x1).

If your graphics card is PCI-E x1, you can stick it the x16 slot (yes it will still work), leaving the x1 slot free for NIC.
 
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HypoCheese

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I'm an idiot, I completely discarded the other PCI-E slot, I assumed it was something else, thank you, will be getting a NIC card tomorrow.

This: https://www.jw.com.au/tp-link-tg-3468-gigabit-pci-express-network-adapter
or
This: https://www.jw.com.au/tp-link-tf-3239dl-10-100m-pci-network-adapter
I assume the first one would be the only one that would work.
 
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