Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

[Ken Yap]

|Onboard? Run away, run away!
|
|I highly recommend having as much off the motherboard as you can - they
|always come back to bite later anyway. A network interface is less of a
|problem than a sound card or whatever, but it's always good to be able to
|pull out a problem. :)

Nah, they're fine. Usually there's a BIOS option to disable the NIC.
Would you recommend always having serial and parallel interfaces
offboard? They work fine. You don't have a choice these days anyway.
The usual problem is that up till recently up till recently most mobos
with integrated NICs were mediocre.

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