A tale of two NICs

[Obsoleet]

I'm guessing both of these suck because they're integrated, but is the "PCI-E" NIC a better one to use?

Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller

or

Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller

 

[JackMDS]

Hmm... I do not know I get 58MB/sec. with both on a Windows peer-to-peer network.

So I would say that it does not matter which one, and that for regular peer-to-peer Windows network the the thinking they "Suck" is Obsoleet.

 

[TheKub]

Which slot type do you have more of? Thats really the only concideration at the desktop level.

 

[imagoon]

Considering that PCI has a max theoretical speed of about 132MB/sec (32bit, 33mhz burst), and Gigabit has a max of 125MB/sec (which you will never reach on a desktop in normal use anyway), either will work fine.