So questions for those who have an X570 motherboard that has an 2.5G Ethernet NIC port...

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Hi all. So there are a good amount of X570 motherboards out there now that carry a 2.5G Ethernet port on the motherboard. The ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero X570 motherboard is an example of that as well as Gigabyte's Aorus Master X570 and MSI's MAG X570 Tomahawk Wi-Fi amongst a few others. Now many of us are using Gigabit Ethernet for our home networks at home but it begs me to ask this question: For those who have a Gigabit Ethernet home network using an X570 mobo with a 2.5G Ethernet port who is using that port on their networks to connect? Also, how does it perform on said Gigabit Ethernet? I'm still using the Gigabit Ethernet NIC port on my Crosshair VIII Hero and I ponder now...am I missing something not using the 2.5G Ethernet port? Write back with your thoughts. Thanks. Out!
 
I use the 10G Aquantia port on my board to connect up to my gig network. No real difference between that and the other intel 1G port that Ive seen so far.
 
I am using that port. I bought a 2.5G card for my Plex Server and have them directly connected for faster transfers between the machines, and using the 1Gb nics to hook to the network.

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On most of these boards you have two Ethernet ports, usually a Realtek 2.5G port and an Intel 1G port. If you are only connecting at 1Gb, the Intel port would be superior. Realtek is still trash compared to Intel, although to Realtek's credit, the gap has closed a bit over the years.

If you actually have a 2.5Gb capable switch, then the benefit of connecting using the 2.5Gb port would be self-explanatory.

Another thing to consider is that multipath SMB works well and is fully transparent. Connect multiple network connections to the same switch and it just works. I run 3x 1Gb connections in my main desktop and 4x 1Gb connections in my file server, all connected to the same switch, and I can get 3Gb transfers between the two, using nothing but gigabit ports. So you might as well just keep both Ethernet ports connected to your switch.

Multipath SMB in action:
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GotNoRice said:
On most of these boards you have two Ethernet ports, usually a Realtek 2.5G port and an Intel 1G port. If you are only connecting at 1Gb, the Intel port would be superior. Realtek is still trash compared to Intel, although to Realtek's credit, the gap has closed a bit over the years.

If you actually have a 2.5Gb capable switch, then the benefit of connecting using the 2.5Gb port would be self-explanatory.

Another thing to consider is that multipath SMB works well and is fully transparent. Connect multiple network connections to the same switch and it just works. I run 4x 1Gb connections in my main desktop and 4x 1Gb connections in my file server, all connected to the same switch, and I can get 4Gb transfers between the two, using nothing but gigabit ports. So you might as well just keep both Ethernet ports connected to your switch.
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you don't have to configure anything, just plug all the nics to the switch? And copying 1 large file will transfer using all 4 ports at the same time?
 
Zepher said:
you don't have to configure anything, just plug all the nics to the switch? And copying 1 large file will transfer using all 4 ports at the same time?
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Yeah, fully transparent. No configuration necessary. It's flexible also. So you could have a computer on one end connected with a 2.5G port, and a computer on the other end with 3x 1Gb connections, and be able to max out the 2.5G port.

Just keep in mind that it's only as fast as the slowest link in-between. So if you have computers connected to separate gigabit switches, with only a 1Gb link connecting the two switches, your transfers between the switches will obviously never be faster than 1Gb. If you had two gigabit switches connected to each other via 10Gb then that would work.

I'm only actually running 3x gigabit at the moment (onboard gigabit + Dual-port intel gigabit card). I had an Intel CT adapter in there also as the 4th port but I forgot that I pulled it out to use it in another computer.
 
RareAir23 said:
Hi all. So there are a good amount of X570 motherboards out there now that carry a 2.5G Ethernet port on the motherboard. The ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero X570 motherboard is an example of that as well as Gigabyte's Aorus Master X570 and MSI's MAG X570 Tomahawk Wi-Fi amongst a few others. Now many of us are using Gigabit Ethernet for our home networks at home but it begs me to ask this question: For those who have a Gigabit Ethernet home network using an X570 mobo with a 2.5G Ethernet port who is using that port on their networks to connect? Also, how does it perform on said Gigabit Ethernet? I'm still using the Gigabit Ethernet NIC port on my Crosshair VIII Hero and I ponder now...am I missing something not using the 2.5G Ethernet port? Write back with your thoughts. Thanks. Out!
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Well, I have 2 B550 motherboards with 2.5Gbe connections on them. For the time being, they are connected as Gigabit because that is what my router supports. However, my internet modem supports a 2.5Gbe connection and I have Gigabit internet access, which gets up to 1160Mbps when I connected it directly to my computer. I am looking forward to being able to purchase or build a router with multiple multi gig router so I may use the full provisioning of my internet connection.
 
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