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Name: n00blike
Date: July 24, 2004 at 22:18:46 Pacific
Subject: what NIC card is the best?
OS: XP
CPU/Ram: p4 1.3/521
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I was just woundering what the best NIC card there is to get? Does it really make a diferance? What do gamer's use the most?


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Response Number 1
Name: heropsycho
Date: July 25, 2004 at 00:26:31 Pacific
Subject: what NIC card is the best?
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3com and Intel are the best quality NIC's. They tend to do more calculations within themselves instead of forcing your CPU to do it. They're of course more expensive, too.

But to be honest, you probably won't see any difference for gaming.

MCSE, MCSA Messaging, baby!


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Name: j3r3my_07
Date: July 25, 2004 at 04:16:04 Pacific
Subject: what NIC card is the best?
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I use one from my mobo LOL..

~evans~


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Response Number 3
Name: heropsycho
Date: July 25, 2004 at 16:06:48 Pacific
Subject: what NIC card is the best?
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Like I said, it probably won't matter any. I'm meticulous about what I use in my system. I'd be using the Nforce2 NIC except it got blown to hell somehow in a BIOS flash. So I use a Netgear. For gaming and doing broadband internet, as long as it's not USB, you won't see really any difference. I was just referring to technically which NICs are the best.

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Response Number 4
Name: zoddy
Date: July 26, 2004 at 11:57:56 Pacific
Subject: what NIC card is the best?
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yes.. 3com and intel are the most prestigious. they have higher end/server nics and have been around alot longer than linksys/netgear.

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