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Originally posted by: tangent1138
what's the difference between gigabit lan and 10/100 ?

would i see and speed/latency difference on one computer on a dsl modem?
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no... my brother has had a gigabit linksys card for over 2 years now... i've had a netgear gigabit... an intel gigabit... a regular 3com, realtek, and now my onboard broadcom... and honestly... they all pretty performed the same to me... unless you're running a gigabit network... you'll never notice it... but these gigabit NICs have gotten so cheap you might as well get it. 2 years ago the netgear copper gigabit cost $300. :Q
 
Googlegear now has the IC7 in stock for $151.95 and free 2nd-day shipping.

I was going to wait for the IC7-G, but this price from a reputable dealer was too tempting to pass up, especially with a perfectly fine 10/100 NIC sitting next to me on my desk.

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Just to set the record straight , the IC7 and IC7-G BOTH have the same 6-channel on-board audio and SPDIF connectors according to the specifications. The only apparent difference in the 2 boards is the IC7 DOES have the ICH5R southbridge with Intel Serial ATA RAID (more than Asus provided on their $250 P4C800 Deluxe), but it does NOT have the 2nd Silicon Image SATA RAID controller that is on the IC7-G. The other difference is the CSA Intel Gigabit LAN is NOT on the IC7. I supect the IC7 has no on-board LAN because the CSA LAN chip is not pin-compatible with other LAN chips - making a drop-in downgrade difficult. The pictures seem to indicate both boards are 4-phase and I have been able to confirm they actually use the same BIOS - IC710 - so I wouldn't expect any substantive differences.

At $152 including 2-day Fedex I grabbed one from Googlegear even though I have a few questions.
 
These are the extras on the IC7-G by looking at the specs:

- On board Intel CSA Gigabit LAN
- Supports Performance Acceleration Technology (PAT) function
- 2 channel Serial ATA 150MB/s data transfer rate with RAID function (0/1) via Silicon Image PCI Chip


Isn't PAT enabled on all 875P chipsets?
 
Would be nice if we could get a review on both boards from somewhere (hint, hint) ...anywhere. I haven't seen nadda (save press releases from Abit) from any of the tech sites.
 
Originally posted by: TenEgg
These are the extras on the IC7-G by looking at the specs:

- On board Intel CSA Gigabit LAN
- Supports Performance Acceleration Technology (PAT) function
- 2 channel Serial ATA 150MB/s data transfer rate with RAID function (0/1) via Silicon Image PCI Chip


Isn't PAT enabled on all 875P chipsets?
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I believe PAT is enabled in all 875P's. It's the Springdales (865P) that supposedly don't have PAT enabled...
 
Keep in mind that there are tangible performance advantages to keeping crap OFF the PCI bus except for what can't help but be there (premium sound, TV cards, SCSI, etc)

Therefore, gigabit LAN on CSA is good not because it's gigabit (unless you're running a server, you won't have the infrastructure, nor the OS necessary to saturate a gigabit ethernet line), but because it's off the PCI bus.

With the only drive of note being introduced as SATA-only being the Raptor (and the Raptor does not fully implement the SATA standard, if I recall), and with Maxtor, and Western Digital "big drives" all being PATA, would it have been so hard for Intel to put 4 regular PATA channels in a chipset instead of 2 PATA and 2 SATA? 🙁
 
Originally posted by: Odeen
Keep in mind that there are tangible performance advantages to keeping crap OFF the PCI bus except for what can't help but be there (premium sound, TV cards, SCSI, etc)
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It does depend on your setup, but yes. And that's why CSA is a must for me.
 
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