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Date:      Sat, 06 Mar 1999 02:06:16 -0500
From:      Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net>
To:        hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   ISA or PCI ethernet
Message-ID:  <36E0D3E8.257F8F70@bellatlantic.net>

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When choosing an ethernet card, which kind should I look
for?  Well, the PCI card, being 64 bits instead of 16/32,
will give better performance.  But I wouldn't think that
choosing PCI over ISA would give that much of a performance
boost.

I was going to get an ISA ethernet for these reasons;  you
never know when you'll need those PCI slots.  Now something
like a video or sound card, that is something that you would
tend to notice the performace increase of if you upgraded
from ISA --> PCI.  I wouldn't think it would matter much for
something like ethernet.

Any comments on this?

Thanks

Donn



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