10 Best Motherboards for Network
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Why We Recommend These Products
Out of thousands of reviews for 143 products, over 200 people recommended Motherboards specifically for Network. These 10 are the most highly recommended products we found.
eVGA nForce 650i ULTRA 122-CK-NF66-T1
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$119
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16 People Recommend
"it is the more comprehensive solution and it includes two gigabit ports as well as legacy ultraata support; there is no way intel’s x48 can beat that.…" - Bad213Boy at Newegg.com "has (3) pci slots for using better pci cards instead of the average rated onboard lan, and onboard sound.…" - Newegg.com User "so my ethernet ports wouldnt work.…" - Steve at Newegg.com |
Gigabyte MA69VM-S2 1.0 AMD Socket AM2 MicroATX
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$86
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13 People Recommend
"it has pretty much everything you need for a system upgrade right on the motherboard: 1 pata connector for your optical drives, 4 sata, ethernet, sound, and video.…" - Newegg.com User "i did a few things to get it to work i think it was the fact that the rj45 cable (internet cable) was connected to the boards lan port before the drivers were installed.…" - Steele at Newegg.com "other thoughts: i bought this board because of the gigabyte lan speeds, the audio, and it had pci-express compared to my now old computer which still used an agp.…" - Newegg.com User |
Intel DP35DP
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$96 - $130
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10 People Recommend
"if you are running linux, you have to download the driver for the ethernet card, because it doesn't take generic drivers.…" - Tigerdirect.com User "and then suddenly system hardware monitor and lan adapter stopped working.…" - Tigerdirect.com User "for people having problems with the network port under linux: intel has posted source for the e1000 module.…" - Newegg.com User |
Abit iP35 Pro 843323000223
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$280
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9 People Recommend
"i believe it does have dual net-work interface which isa huge plus for us network fanatics.…" - NoFace at Newegg.com "even has some of the x38/680i/780i-esque features like (quasi-)dual-gigabit and esata.…" - Newegg.com User "realtek ethernet is pci bus so have upgraded to intel pcie card.…" - Powdrpig at Newegg.com |
Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H
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$103
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5 People Recommend
"i'm going to use it for a bit and then upgrade to a top-shelf motherboard(prolly dfi lanparty), as am2+.…" - Shouden at Newegg.com "get the audio to work, make sure you install the audio drivers from realtek: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsview.aspx?langid=1&pnid=14&pfid=24&level=4&conn=3&downtypeid=3&getdown=false…" - Newegg.com User "but theres an x16 pcie lane for expansion.…" - Newegg.com User |
Intel DG33BU UATX DDR2 800 GBE LAN VIIV 1333MHZ
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$95 - $122
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5 People Recommend
"if you need the features of the g33 (1333mhz bus, onboard video, onboard gigabit ethernet) in this form factor, it does fine.…" - Newegg.com User "has just the right features for a low-wattage router or similar: low-end integrated graphics (it's all you need!) and quality intel pcie gigabit ethernet.…" - N/A at Newegg.com "its ethernet and sata (ie, the most important things).…" - linux-works at Newegg.com |
INTEL MB BOXDQ35JOE 1333FSB DR2 800 AUD+LAN RAID
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$115 - $145
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3 People Recommend
"when you turn the computer off, it is still accessible remotely through the small amount of standby current just like “wake on lan”.…" - Newegg.com User "advanced networking capababilities for vm technology, good memory management.…" - x86 at Newegg.com "when you turn the computer off, it is still accessible remotely through the small amount of standby current just like “wake on lan”. …" - Newegg.com User |
ASUS M2R32-MVP
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$94 - $115
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2 People Recommend
"pros: very solid board, comes with gigabit networking. …" - Newegg.com User "so far the system has been trouble - save for one problem with the on-board lan. …" - Newegg.com User "random start up quirks (no display or lan connection) re start and all is ok. …" - Newegg.com User |
Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2H
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2 People Recommend
"other thoughts: gigabite ga-g33m, 2 gb g.skill ram, 160gb hdd, c2d e6550.…" - Newegg.com User "after about 8 hours into the mobo the integrated lan simply disappeared, even from the bios. …" - Newegg.com User " other thoughts: gigabite ga-g33m, 2 gb g.skill ram, 160gb hdd, c2d e6550.…" - Newegg.com User |
Gigabyte GA-M68SM-S2
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1 People Recommend
"firewire and gigabit network. …" - Newegg.com User "i had to download the update from gigabyte to get it to talk on the network. …" - Newegg.com User "also, this makes network based linux installs impossible. …" - Newegg.com User |
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