On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Stroller wrote: PCI-express has > _signifcantly_ more capacity than regular old PCI - I read recently > that regular old PCI may be unable to keep up with a gigabit network > card & that onboard gigbit network ports are faster.
PCI = 133mb/sec theoretical. 100mb with a good chipset (ie not nforce). PCIE = 250mb/sec theoretical > > I tend to think of PCI-X just as "long PCI" or only-a-bit-faster-than > PCI. you think wrong. > It might be (say?) double the speed of short PCI, but it doesn't > match PCI-e's several-times (?) performance. PCI-X is A LOT faster than PCI, faster than PCIE 1x, 2x http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-X PCI-X 1.0 = 1GB/sec PCI-X 2 = 2GB/sec -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
