Server NIC Recommendation

Vince Callaway fastxr at gmail.com
Tue Aug 21 02:48:58 BST 2007


Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Any of the intel e1000 based cards should be fine (you'll probably find a
> lot of other manufacturers ship with this chipset too).  The Broadcom
> bcm43xx cards also seem pretty reasonably by now.
>   
Ditto on the Intel cards.  They will also out perform the broadcom.  The
Intel cards handle much of the processing in hardware.  The braodcom
drivers require more CPU cycles to perform the same task.




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