TweakTown – ASRock Multi-Gigabit Performance: 10GbE/5GbE/2.5G Networking

Many modern motherboards ship with a new multi-speed Ethernet. You may have noticed that one port on the back of your system is a different color, or in some cases, upside down in relation to the others. At first, the enhanced Ethernet ports added support for 10-gigabit speeds but many companies have introduced NBASE-T or Multi-Gigabit with provisions for 2.5 and 5-gigabit networking (IEEE 802.3bz). Read more here.