Shirayuki wrote on 2011-05-22 17:47
Currently, I use the stock nVidia NIC, and it's been in use for almost 3~4 years now. I'm just wondering if an upgrade to an Intel NIC will make a difference in throughput or anything.
Yoorah wrote on 2011-05-22 18:22
It depends on the rest of your system and what your use cases are. It also depends on which Intel NIC you plan on buying.
I don't know what your NVIDIA board uses. xd But even assuming that they use something crappy, the difference in a typical home workload will be minuscule.
The most noticeable upgrade you can make is if you currently have a NIC that supports only 10/100 Mbps, and you upgrade to one that supports Gigabit Ethernet (1 Gbps). In this case, if you have a switch/router with Gigabit Ethernet support and another computer/server on your local network with a Gigabit NIC, you could transfer files faster and whatnot. This doesn't improve your Internet-related stuff, though.