Gigabit lan on Intel mb chipsets

[bononos]

I noticed that Intel chipsets since P55 have a built in gigabit lan but motherboard makers prefer to integrate a 3rd party chip for the ethernet port. Whats the reason for that?

 

[postmortemIA]

My board, by intel, has their gigabit controller, but it is connected via pci-e x1 to chipset

 

[Remobz]

How do the gigabit controller stack up to this type of nic?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&SID=u00000687


Do any mobos come with this type of nic as in the link above?

Hopefully in matx as well?

 

[piasabird]

Intel is selling 10gb Network Adapters. I think this is mostly for the server market.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

I noticed that Intel chipsets since P55 have a built in gigabit lan but motherboard makers prefer to integrate a 3rd party chip for the ethernet port. Whats the reason for that?

Usually cost. Mainboard makers get a discount when they buy a Realtek NIC + HD audio codec. Intel NICs tend to be relatively more expensive then Realtek, Atheros, Broadcom etc.

 

[Automaticman]

Yeah, I was under the impression that, even though the NIC was built into the chipset, the OEM still has to pay Intel for the license to use it. My Asus board has 1 Intel LAN port, but almost every other board I've seen uses Realtek.

 

[Remobz]

Yeah, I was under the impression that, even though the NIC was built into the chipset, the OEM still has to pay Intel for the license to use it. My Asus board has 1 Intel LAN port, but almost every other board I've seen uses Realtek.

I would avoid realtek or if you cannot then just buy a dedicated NIC adapter like the one in my link (previous post). I am looking for a mobo that has a good Intel NIC built in already.

 

[mfenn]

Yeah, I was under the impression that, even though the NIC was built into the chipset, the OEM still has to pay Intel for the license to use it. My Asus board has 1 Intel LAN port, but almost every other board I've seen uses Realtek.

Correct. It is cheaper to buy a Realtek, VIA or Atheros than it is to license the Intel NIC, so OEMs go for that.

 

[techie81]

The Gigabyte Z87X boards all have Intel nics on them, one reason why I went with Gigabyte. My previous P55 board had a realtek but I bought an Intel Nic because they are truly better.

 

[taq8ojh]

I don't see anything wrong about Realtek. Are you talking about some specific problems, or are you just hating without a reason?

 

[Tsavo]

My Intel NIC's are my favorite bits of hardware. I even love my Centrino stuff.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

I don't see anything wrong about Realtek. Are you talking about some specific problems, or are you just hating without a reason?

Ironically enough, if you have good networking gear, there's usually no problems.

The only problems I personally have had with Realtek NICs, has been with very long cable installations (30-50m+) and (cheap) consumer type gear. Got an awful amount of random disconnects, with an added Intel NIC the problem went away just like that. I can't say if it was the specific implementation on those boards, the router or something else.

On the other hand I had a run-in with a Realtek 8168E, and was pleasantly surprised. So YMMV.

 

[bononos]

There hasn't been reviews on nics for ages, which might be an indication that things aren't interesting and the cheap stuff actually works well enough. Personally I haven't had any problems with onboard realtek with latency while gaming and downloading since I switched to onboard for a long while already.

Ironically enough, if you have good networking gear, there's usually no problems.

The only problems I personally have had with Realtek NICs, has been with very long cable installations (30-50m+) and (cheap) consumer type gear. Got an awful amount of random disconnects, with an added Intel NIC the problem went away just like that. I can't say if it was the specific implementation on those boards, the router or something else.
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Did that happen a while back? There used to be an issue with the green ethernet setting which caused disconnects since it tries to conserve power by giving just enough juice for the estimated cable length instead of the full 100m run and some cards back then just didn't do it well. Switching the green setting off solved the issue.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

Did that happen a while back? There used to be an issue with the green ethernet setting which caused disconnects since it tries to conserve power by giving just enough juice for the estimated cable length instead of the full 100m run and some cards back then just didn't do it well. Switching the green setting off solved the issue.

That was my initial thought too, unfortunately, no dice... :\

 

[taq8ojh]

I just remembered I did have some problems ages ago, and actually buying some PRO/1000G-something card fixed it. Maybe some of the OLD versions of some chips were problematic. I can't remember any network problems in at least last five years though.