How bad is a network card?

Liquid Len · Post by **Liquid Len** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:34 pm

For your machine's performance? If I leave it disabled when I'm not using it (99% of the time) will it still impact performance?

I'm using a P4T-E motherboard (850 chipset) and a GeForce2 video card (soon to be upgraded to a Matrox G450), and a UAD-1 card. Any suggestions for slot combinations to avoid, etc?

Post by **garyb** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:07 am

if it's disabled, it won't make any difference. when enabled, it will eat some pci bandwidth as well as an irq. that may or may not be a problem, depending on what you do with the machine.