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I know I'm tempted. Even the $200 ASRock Extreme-whatever budget board has 2.5Gbit LAN onboard. Most Z490 boards do.
Whereas, what about the X570 boards? Still very few.
I don't know about B550 boards, maybe the mobo makers will have a change of heart, and add 2.5Gbit LAN to most of those, too.
Yeah, I know, I know, you can buy PCI-E x1 8125 RealTek LAN cards for $20-30 to drop into a PCI-E x1 slot (if you have one left, after all of your GPUs and NVMe SSDs on AM4), or a USB3.0 dongle with a RealTek 2.5Gbit LAN from Cable Matters for $30 off of Amazon. (I have some of each, already.)
But there's both something powerful, and utilitarian, about 2.5Gbit LAN being built-in, to me.
Whereas, what about the X570 boards? Still very few.
I don't know about B550 boards, maybe the mobo makers will have a change of heart, and add 2.5Gbit LAN to most of those, too.
Yeah, I know, I know, you can buy PCI-E x1 8125 RealTek LAN cards for $20-30 to drop into a PCI-E x1 slot (if you have one left, after all of your GPUs and NVMe SSDs on AM4), or a USB3.0 dongle with a RealTek 2.5Gbit LAN from Cable Matters for $30 off of Amazon. (I have some of each, already.)
But there's both something powerful, and utilitarian, about 2.5Gbit LAN being built-in, to me.