Which internal NIC should I use?

[cptCuervo]

I have an MSI K8N Nforce4 plat. board with 2 built in NIC's. One is a Marvell Yukon 88E053 PCI-e Gigabit NIC, the other is the Nvidia Gigabit NIC. I have a Linksys 10/100 wireless router and a cable connection.

Does it matter which one I use? Is one better than the other?

If I had a switch I could utilize 2 cards ... but not really worth it for my use.

Any insight or advice?

Thanks.

 

[n0cmonkey]

The Marvell one is probably a SysKonnect chipset, and they're some of the best out there.

 

[cptCuervo]

I guess I could hook up the 2nd one to the router with a diff IP... but again... I can't think of an advantage to doing this.

 

[n7]

Doesn't matter really...

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

Yeah, NIC's are practically all the same... Use whichever one you're partial to

 

[Valkerie]

Originally posted by: t3h l337 n3wb
Yeah, NIC's are practically all the same... Use whichever one you're partial to

just so long optimal drivers are present, they're going to be decent