On 6/5/11 3:54 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Ok, the chip is from 3Q'10 and PCI-E 3.0 is from November 2010, but > 1.0a is a bit silly too.
Blame Intel and their silly market segmentation. xref Intel's DMI bus for more laughs. > > For what it's worth, if people need to slot a longer > card, http://www.adexelec.com/pciexp.htm has > adapters that should allow longer cards to slot, just work at x1 > speeds. They also have cards to > adapt a standard x1 card (or longer with the same adapters) into a > PCI-E mini card slot. > > I'm having trouble finding any usable x1 cards. A 4x 1G NIC is an x4 > card. Most SATA cards are > x4 or longer as well. Has anyone found any fun x1 cards other than > sound, rs232/parallel, video > capture and low end video card? As much as it might seem unnecessary on the net6501, I've been wondering when Soekris would release a gigabit or at least PCIe update to the lan17[24]1 (gigabit isn't _that_ necessary for most edge routing). Also worth noting that for various reasons of practicality, PCIe(1.0) x1 is questionable for more than 2 ports. I have similar issues with the proliferation of SiI3132 cards out there (2 SATA3.0 ports sitting on PCIe x1). At least with ethernet, you might not be as interested/needful in saturating the line.
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