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How does Intel NIC help?

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Hello,

 

We all know that motherboards with Intel NIC is considered a better option over realtek or killer.

How does that really matters in gaming? Will I see improve ping, stability and latency?

Download speed is better? What does it do better in real world application, mostly about games.

 

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  • Driver support especially in ESXi
  • WOL
  • PXE Boot option
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We all know that motherboards with Intel NIC is considered a better option over realtek or killer.

How does that really matters in gaming? Will I see improve ping, stability and latency?

Download speed is better? What does it do better in real world application, mostly about games.

It depends on how bad the one on your mohterboard is, but overall it mostly helps with stability(anymore now, Realtek isn't that bad). 

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it's kinda long story

but the selling point of intel NIC is always better driver/hardware support

 

as for daily computing, it doesn't really matter for now.

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Typically just better all round; especially with drivers. But my Killer NIC on my MSI board does me just fine.

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