You gotta specify A) whether you're talking about Wi-Fi or Ethernet, and B) whether you're talking about it being built-in or as a separate USB or PCIe card.
As far as I can tell, every Z87 board has gigabit Ethernet built-in since Intel's Z87 chipset includes a gigabit Ethernet controller. Not nearly as many of them have Wi-Fi built-in, though. If you need Wi-Fi, there's plenty of USB or PCIe 1x cards to choose from.
http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/wireless-network-card/
JT! Wrote:Erm.. to connect to my router to get on the internet? Isn't that what a network card is?
A network card is a PCI or pci-e card with Ethernet ports on it. In the "old days" it was used to add an RJ45 (ethernet) port to a motherboard to establish a high speed wired network connection to other devices over ethernet. These days they are only used in servers to add more ethernet ports when the one or two ports built into the motherboard aren't enough.
Network cards haven't been commonly used to connect to routers in consumer equipment for a decade now. There is no need to have one to connect to a router and there hasn't been for quiet some time.
But for the most part wireless LAN has replaced wired LAN since USB WIFI adapters have been cheap and widely available for many years now. Laptops have had built in wifi modules since 2004ish and high end motherboards have had built in wifi for the last few years. For those who still prefer wired over wireless gigabit Ethernet (and before that 100 mb/s ethernet) has been built into every motherboard for ages now. I'm pretty sure my pentium 4 rig had one. So that's not an issue either. In the 90s you needed them but I hardly doubt that your computer is that old so I'm surprised that you assumed you needed one to connect to a router. Does your current system use a network card or is your ethernet connected to the motherboard?
Serious question: Were you perhaps living in a cave somewhere for the last 10 years while wifi became common?
No, I simply didn't that both motherboards had a wired lan port. I thought only one did, hence my preference for it.
I prefer a wired connection to be honest, less ping.
The last desktop computer I had was actually about 10-11 years ago. I had to get a network card for it. Since then it's been laptops all the way.
Quote:The PGA94x (AM sockets) are all extremely similar and most of them are backwards/forwards compatible with each other. They are all slight modifications of their predecessors.
Of course
AM2 - accepts AM2 and AM3 CPUs, but you are restricted to DDR2
AM3 - accept AM3 CPUs and some motheboards can be updated to accept AM3+
AM3 - can accept all the above plus the AM3+ only variants
the AM3 only added support for DDR3 and the AM3+ changed the voltage requirements in order to feed these new power-hungry CPUs
Quote:The PGA90x family (FM sockets) are very different from the PGA94x family. And they are not backwards/forwards compatible with each other. With the exception of FM2+ which is compatible with both FM2 and FM2+ cpus (although FM2+ cpus will not work in FM2 motherboards). PGA90x are also each slight modifications of their predecessors. But share little in common with the PGA94x sockets.
True, but i said "based on", i didn`t say they were compatible in any way.
Quote:Some AM3 motherboards can use AM3+ cpus (bulldozer/piledriver) with a bios
update so that second statement isn't entirely accurate either.
true, you know why? because some AM3 motherboards do supply the necessary voltage for the AM3+ CPUs, the update only adds the correct values for it to work.
I don't think AM2 CPU's work in AM3 >.> (they might fit, but they won't work due to DDR3)
(08-01-2013, 12:45 PM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: [ -> ]I don't think AM2 CPU's work in AM3 >.> (they might fit, but they won't work due to DDR3)
Exactly.
forgot to say that you must remove a pin to do so.
oh you meant that? that line is wrong, sorry my bad
fixed.
That's weird . My anciect E5300 (DDR2 - 800 time line) works fine with DDR3 memory as long as my mobo support it
775 Pentium wolfdale 45nm , not Core 2 duo
(08-01-2013, 01:09 PM)admin89 Wrote: [ -> ]775 Pentium wolfdale 45nm , not Core 2 duo
So? we are talking about AMD`s sockets...
that CPU doesn`t have an Integrated Memory Controller so it depends on the mobo entirely.