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littlecranky67today at 5:38 PM4 repliesview on HN

Interested in hear the justification why you would need more than 1GbE in a machine built specificly for gaming.


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robhlttoday at 5:45 PM

It's a bit niche, but Steam can download games from another PC running Steam on your local network. 2.5GbE on both PCs makes that a lot faster.

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corndogetoday at 5:41 PM

It's a living room pc - using it to stream from a media NAS is one application that comes to mind

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Keyframetoday at 5:40 PM

Downloading those giant game installs and updates

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