2007/10/19, Russell Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > One other related issue is that newer IBM X series hardware use > PCI-Express x 8 and the Intel Nic that I got just used one channel (had > a small number of contacts on it) anyone have any idea about relative > performance?
1 PCI-e 1.1 lane does 250MB/s, so this should be enough for a 1Gb NIC. :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-Express Best Martin
