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Killer E2500 + Intel Gigabit LAN
« on: June 21, 2018, 05:11:42 pm »
Hi I have bought an AORUS Intel Z370 Gaming 7 Coffee Lake ATX Motherboard it has Killer E2500 + Intel Gigabit LAN does it matter what one I plug into.
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Re: Killer E2500 + Intel Gigabit LAN
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2018, 04:02:53 am »
Hi I have bought an AORUS Intel Z370 Gaming 7 Coffee Lake ATX Motherboard it has Killer E2500 + Intel Gigabit LAN does it matter what one I plug into.

Yes and No. 

The upper port should be Intel, lower Killer.  Comes down to preference.  I prefer Intel over killer.  You can't team them.  Just a word of caution.  Do not install the cFOS utility on the MB CD.  If you have installed it, uninstall it. 

The killer comes with a network manager application of its own.  I have application control disabled, but am not using it currently.  I'd rather have two NICs the same brand that could be teamed over 2 different brands. 

I did a side by side comparison when I got my Z97 and the Intel performed better over the killer consistently.  The only tests I did were file transfers between my PC and NAS.  This is all that matter to me really.  Just a matter of preference.
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