A little Leary about using the Asus onboard LAN Chipset.

[Nexxuvas]

A lot of people are telling me to just use the Motherboards Marvell 88E8001 to connect to the cable modem.

I've had a NIC Card for forever and so far have never had any issues with it (3Com, had it since I got cable internet 4 yrs ago).

I kept both the NIC cards out of my 2 old PC's in spirit of re-using them and was told not to waste the space.

Should I forgo them or re-install and continue to use them?

Thanks,

 

[apache_lives]

use onboard lan, if it has issues, use the cards, otherwise, why use cards when onboard is the same thing? cards = spare

 

[Nexxuvas]

cool thanks

 

[graysky]

As an added bonus, I believe that onboard LANs don't suffer from the PCI 33 MHz bottleneck. Probably only an issue if you're running at gigalan speeds...

 

[Rabidpeanut]

Also, most of the marvell on board lan cards are gigabit.

 

[deweycd]

And most onboard lans end up having few problems with conflicts

 

[apache_lives]

And most onboard lans end up having few problems with conflicts

they will suffer the same issues as card variants as they also use an irq

 

[linux_0]

As stated above. Use the onboard Marvell.

It is actually quite good and Gigabit!

It performs very well.

Good Luck!