>About the "Desktop" vs "Server" question, "Dell does not support" does not >mean it won't work. It does mean there is no AGP slot, but a PCI graphics >card is fine for everything except Gaming, DVD viewing and CAD. Heck, the >onboard Video is probably fine for hi-res, non real-time applications. The >SC420 does have two "PCI Express" slots, whatever those are<g>.
AGP and PCI are going the way of ISA and are being replaced with PCI Express. The latter is a serial bus and comes in a variety of "widths". For video you normally get a 16 or 32x PCI Express that has 16 or 32 high speed serial channels feeding the video card. It is at least an order of magnitude faster than AGP. Here's a good link: http://www.intel.com/technology/pciexpress/devnet/docs/WhatisPCIExpress.pdf ~Don -------- _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
