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No, actually, you're onboard NIC in most newer boards is fairly decent (as long as it's not a realtek whatever).. but the switch is what kills most people.. they throw a cheap no-name switch into the network, and that's the killer.

You're selections are good. I'd be a bit more tempted to go with an ATI video solution instead of Nvidia, but the 430 is a good bang for the buck. Spend some money and get a decent gigabit switch to go with this for transporting heavy content across a home network. Some cheap realtek based...