You don't need PCIe 4.0 for a gigabit NIC. PCIe 2.0 would be fine, honestly. I have one of these in my PC. The motherboard does have onboard LAN but it's a Realtek chip and I am twitchy about their ...
My new Netgear FA311 and the on-board NIC on a Asus P56DC seem to time out. I’ll try to get on the ‘Net after an hour or so of not using the NIC card and get ...