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Originally Posted by dragon
It's not the speed, its the CPU utilization for a given level of throughput and as I said it's only some chipsets that aren't good for it.
Generally you probably wouldn't notice it in a desktop environment but you might on a firewall box.
At 1Gbit I find it's usually the drives that bottleneck before anything else.
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With a 3.6Ghz C2D then i can see why i wouldn't notice a difference. Good call on the firewall box scenario though.