Thread: Would a NIC be better than onboard ethernet ?
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Old 11-05-2009, 11:34   #14
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Re: Would a NIC be better than onboard ethernet ?
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Originally Posted by AbyssUnderground View Post
The only thing a separate NIC is good for is offloading resources to the card's processor rather than using the PC's CPU. Great on slower machines but negligible for todays PC's. You should only need to consider a separate NIC if you need Gigabit and the onboard port doesn't offer it.
Or a hardware proxy server/firewall with 2 NICs?
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