Mobo specs ?

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Kilauea

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Unless I am blind, I believe I haven't found any answer to this probably very dumb question while reading mobo 101.

What does having a gigabit LAN controller or a dual gigabit LAN controller change ? What is the advantage of the dual one(as I assume it is the "better" one) ? Also, under what circumstances is that useful ?

Edit: Also, I have a problem to find the difference between an Asus P965 mobo and a a P975x one. Let aside all the different P965 versions, to me there isn't really any difference between those 2.
 
With the nForce 6 chipset, you can use both of them to have a combined speed of up to 2Gbps (that is if your other networking hardware supports it).

On other motherboards however, you generally cant combine them, and the only real use for them are if you want to be connected to multiple networks, or want to use your computer as a server or router of some sort.
 
That feature is aimed at servers and computers that rely on network bandwidth like file servers and the such. I find gigabit LAN more than enough.
 
Just to add on to my post, as elite implied, having a 2Gbps connection is pretty much useless for a home user, since the network infrastructure rarely supports it. 1Gbps is plenty.

There are a few cool uses though of having dual NIC's. One is that you can be connected to two networks at the same time, but even cooler is that you can configure your desktop PC to be a router, ap, or a firewall for your network.
 
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