External Network card for pc?

[Boraes]

Ok now I know a decent network card will improve my net speed, not drastically, but enough to notice.

I'm using the standard motherboard connection as I have no spare PCi-e slots as all three are being used by GfX cards (2 in Sli and 1 to run extra displays).

Is there an External RJ45 to USB (or other) network card that I can use or am I stymied?

 

[13thmonkey]

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/edimax-eu-4306-usb-30-20-gigabit-ethernet-adapter-pc-mac
good enough to make a difference? who knows?

 

[Joey2oo9]

You'd be wasting your money, a new network card will make no noticeable difference.

 

[kyzarvs]

USB2 - ethernet is not fast in terms of bandwidth and latency. I wouldn't recommend buying one.

I disagree that an external card will make any difference. 15 years ago motherboard NIC's offloading the TCP/IP processing stack to the CPU was an issue, now I bet you take up less than 0.5% of any available CPU core even when sending and receiving at full speed over a 1GB wired network. For online gaming? the TCP/IP load will be hardly measurable.