Missed your caffeine this morning Steven? PCI or PCI?
Yep, we all knew what you meant, but it did bring a smile to my face. Andy On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Steven S. Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > ----- "./aal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am building a system with a GA K8NS 939 Ultra mobo. > > I will have multi hdds in it, only one of which will be SATA > > since I will only have one sata drive and this board has 2 sata hosts > > I wanted to know which would be the best one to use(if it makes a > > difference) > > one controller is NForce3 ultra and the other is Si3512 > > Incomplete question. > > Best one to use for what? Performance, Stability, Reliability, Raid? > > Things to keep in mind, What bus are the controllers sitting on? Regardless > of them being onboard, they still have to sit on either PCI, PCI, or some > other similar bus. When on those busses, which ones share resources with > other devices. You may find that one or the other share hardware interrupts > or bus with other high usage devices. Keeping them split apart will reduce > bus contention, or the need to service multiple devices on a hardware > interrupt when one or the other fires the interrupt. > > -- > Steven Critchfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
