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X99M Extreme4 - Which LAN port to use? |
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thegreywizard 
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 Topic: X99M Extreme4 - Which LAN port to use?Posted: 09 Apr 2016 at 9:04am |
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So the X99M Extreme4 has 2 LAN ports:
Intel® Gigabit LAN + Qualcomm® Atheros® Gigabit LAN Which one should I use and why? I'm not entirely sure which one I have it plugged into at the moment, but I did install the drivers for both LANs Is it possible to use them both at the same time for dual channel/higher bandwidths like on the Z170 Extreme7+? |
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jameson
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Posted: 11 Apr 2016 at 7:03am |
The Intel NIC, I would say is by far the more widely respected option, as you look around the internet. The one you have is an Intel I218V . From my perspective, these chips are supported in the e1000 series drivers on Linux and they are fuss-free, and perform reliably and with good stability out of box in most any Linux distro. Personally I would only use the Qualcomm AR8171 part on that motherboard if and when I needed a second LAN jack, for functional/practical reasons. Teaming won't actually get you 2.0Gbps, it'll get you 2 x 1.0Gbps links that can be load balanced. Overall it's not worth the added complexity unless you're doing kind of hardcore / server type stuff. In which case I would just recommend investing in 10Gbps NICs instead. Look for two used ones on eBay and run a point-to-point link with another system. That'll save you the cost of a 10Gbe switch.
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parsec
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Posted: 11 Apr 2016 at 1:16pm |
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For your board, if you look at the IO panel with the board mounted in a standard vertical tower case, the "top" RJ-45 port is for the Intel I218V. That means the RJ-45 port below it, just above the audio jacks, is the Atheros AR8171.
My ASRock X99 board uses the same two chips, which can be teamed in several different ways. Only Adaptive Load Balancing is useful for a PC, but any added speed potential by using two network ports will always be limited by your Internet ISP, which is far less than 1Gbps, and is really under 100Mbps. Unless you have two separate routers which are each on an independent connection to your ISP, you cannot get more speed than is possible through the one connection into one router. Still, I have mine connected to a simple switch, and both chips do work, but more speed, no, not without an improved main connection to the Internet. |
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