Install a Lan card

[ky599206]

I have a bio star H61MLV3 motherboard.can i install a lan card in it ?

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Sure you can - the board has two PCI Express slots, one of which is a x16 and the other a x1:

http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=685#specification

What you are referring to is more commonly called a network card - same thing though.

If you buy a PCI Express x16 network card (recommended), you must install it in the x16 slot of your motherboard as it won't fit in the other slot.

Of course, I'm assuming the x16 slot isn't already occupied.

 

[USAFRet]

I have a bio star H61MLV3 motherboard.can i install a lan card in it ?

Is the onboard LAN port broken?

 

[SkyNetRising]

If you buy a PCI Express x16 network card (recommended), you must install it in the x16 slot of your motherboard as it won't fit in the other slot.

Those are server class products with multiple ports. Expensive ones. For a desktop - absolutely unnecessary.

Regular PCIE x1 network adapter is perfectly fine.