[lug] PCI-X question

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Mon Jul 31 18:11:45 MDT 2006


Gary Hodges wrote:
[...]
> Thanks for your comments.  I did double check that the card is backward 
> compatible and it is.  The PCI slots are v2.2 so run at 66 MHz.  Does 
> that put limit at ~260 MB/s?  The video card will be in a PCI Express 
> slot and the NIC (Gigabit) is on-board.  There won't be any other cards.

The real question is, do your video, NIC, and PCI slots share the same 
data path to the CPU?  More at:

http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9408/sam0411b/0411b.htm

Dave



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