Graeme Woollett wrote, On 05/13/2010 09:45 AM:<br>
> Completely OT - How many people here have r8169 gigabit ethernet chips<br>
> (on the m/b) in their machines? I have them in all my machines and they miserably fail under high load<br>
> (i.e. gigabit speeds).<br>
<br>What do you mean by fail - stop working completely? I've got a file server with a 8169 on a PCI card and haven't seen anything like that. Though it maxes out the CPU before reaching full speed so perhaps that's why.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br><br>