ASUS A7NBX Deluxe LAN question

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J Houston wrote:
> Which of the two onboard LAN connectors is fastest on
> this motherboard? The 3Com LAN or the NVidia LAN??

Most advice say nvidia, and that is what I use myself.
If you need to use both nics for your network, it will be smart to use the
3com for f.ex dsl router and nvidia to connect to LAN.

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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:37:56 +0200, "Egil Solberg"
<egilso@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Most advice say nvidia, and that is what I use myself.
>If you need to use both nics for your network, it will be smart to use the
>3com for f.ex dsl router and nvidia to connect to LAN.

My experience is that the Nvidia-NIC is more "resource hungry" -- not
just for the CPU, but in the general "respons speed" from the PC when
there is heavy load on the NIC.




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Clas Mehus wrote:

> My experience is that the Nvidia-NIC is more "resource hungry" -- not
> just for the CPU, but in the general "respons speed" from the PC when
> there is heavy load on the NIC.

Very strange, as the tests I've seen have shown the nvidia MAC as one of
those with least CPU-utilization. I have very limited experience of high
load usage with these nics, I seldom hook up other PCs.