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onboard lan card or PCI slot ?
Name: czar Date: December 13, 2004 at 06:23:52 Pacific OS: win98se CPU/Ram: p4/256
Comment:
Hi all I got an onbard lan card wih my motherboard and a lan card in its pci slot too and would like to know which one will be the best to use please.any suggestions are grately appreciated.
Name: uppercrust Date: December 13, 2004 at 16:03:12 Pacific
Reply:
either one will work
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Response Number 2
Name: OrionCA Date: December 15, 2004 at 14:47:47 Pacific
Reply:
For all practical purposes there's no difference between them. The onboard LAN controller saves you an expansion slot and may be marginally faster. If you're not going to use it go into BIOS and disable it or you'll have an unnecessary device running in background on your PC.
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