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Originally Posted by AmAtoL
As the title says really, is there any benefit at all to having a card rather than using the onboard ethernet ?
I am only interested in gaming performance, all the other stuff I can live with, would it process better or wouldn't I notice any difference ?
At the momoent the onboard is Marvell on an ASUS motherboard.
It seems the NICs have more componenets on the board, compared to what you find on the mobo, just a rule of thumb comparison to try and see why there might be a difference in performance 
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Depends on the Chipset.
I know from my investigations into buildin a pfSense based load balancer that certain realtek chip sets are very much disliked amongst the pfsense community as they use a lot of CPU power once the traffic levels increase (I think it was something to do with the way they handle the TX/RX buffers) and there were a couple intel ones that most people seemed to like.
If you want to know about performance of network cards then asking the community for popular firewall distro's seems to work well as the users using them for bigger networks tend to select hardware based on it's network performance.
That said no reason to buy one of those killer NIC thing's those are just silly IMO.