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First off, you may want to consider some Intel chips as some motherboards come with excellent onboard NICs. 

 

For AM3+, check out the ASrock Fatality 970 Performance.

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So my motherboard broke a while back and I'm buying a new one, as well as a new CPU, but the motherboard I'm looking at (MSI 970 Gaming) doesn't have an Ethernet  adapter built in, so I'm asking two things: Any suggestions for a different AM3 motherboard, which preferably would have a decent Ethernet adapter in it (and a HDMI or VGA port if possible, don't want to have to buy a new GPU too) or which PCIe Ethernet adapter to use. 

Thank you!

My build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/sdbpcf

Inb4, "why a good cpu but awful gpu?"

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First off, you may want to consider some Intel chips as some motherboards come with excellent onboard NICs. 

 

For AM3+, check out the ASrock Fatality 970 Performance.

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Get Intel stuffs.

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First off, you may want to consider some Intel chips as some motherboards come with excellent onboard NICs. 

I did check out some Intel chips, decided I just was going to sticck with AMD because they've never failed me before. But thank you for the suggestion!

My build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/sdbpcf

Inb4, "why a good cpu but awful gpu?"

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I did check out some Intel chips, decided I just was going to sticck with AMD because they've never failed me before. But thank you for the suggestion!

Glad to help!

"The REVISED Companion Cube, v2.1" - "1440p, lock on." Discover it by clicking here.   // Peripherals - Corsair Strafe RGB  + Steelseries Rival

CPU - i7-6700k // Motherboard - ASRock Z170 Extreme 6+ // CPU Cooler - Corsair H100i GTX // Memory - 16GB HyperX Fury DDR4-2133 (2x8GB) // Storage - Samsung 850 EVO 120GB + Seagate Barracuda 1TB // Graphics - Crossfire Sapphire R9 Fury Tri-X // PSU -  EVGA SuperNova G2 850W // Case - Corsair Carbide Air 540 (Steel) // Devices - iPhone 6 Plus, Macbook Pro //

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Are you sure that motherboard has no ethernet - I dont think I have a seen an ITX or bigger missing an ethernet adapter for many many many years.

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