gigabit Ethernet

[Preti9cboi]

I am planning to build me a quiet gaming pc with a MSI RS480M2-IL coupled with an x800xl or a better video card with a 3200+ processor.

The MSI motherboard doesn't contain gigabite ethernet but it has ethernet 10/100.

My questions is, will i be able play games across the internet at a decent speed without gigabite ethernet?

Here's a review of the motherboard.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1784834,00.asp

 

[Mojoed]

You can absolutely play any online game with 10/100 ethernet.

100 megabits (Mb) = 12.5 megabytes (MB) if you account for overhead, you're still looking at ~8 MB/s transfer rate, which is 16x faster than a 4Mb cable connection.

As of now, the only real benefit of having gigabit ethernet is fast file transfer from within a network.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Originally posted by: Mojoed
You can absolutely play any online game with 10/100 ethernet.

100 megabits (Mb) = 12.5 megabytes (MB) if you account for overhead, you're still looking at ~8 MB/s transfer rate, which is 16x faster than a 4Mb cable connection.

As of now, the only real benefit of having gigabit ethernet is fast file transfer from within a network.

What he said. But gigabit internet is also *very* useful at large Lan parties. With so many players, gigabit is a must.

 

[Peter]

In fact, the vast majority of DSL or cable modems implement a 10 megabit ethernet link to the PC. Even measly 100TX LAN is 10-fold overkill.

 

[sxr7171]

Originally posted by: Kensai

Originally posted by: Mojoed
You can absolutely play any online game with 10/100 ethernet.

100 megabits (Mb) = 12.5 megabytes (MB) if you account for overhead, you're still looking at ~8 MB/s transfer rate, which is 16x faster than a 4Mb cable connection.

As of now, the only real benefit of having gigabit ethernet is fast file transfer from within a network.

What he said. But gigabit internet is also *very* useful at large Lan parties. With so many players, gigabit is a must.

Do you think that would be true if all the routers were gigabit capable but just his ethernet was 10/100?

Otherwise I'd say that even 10Mbps ethernet is sufficient.