[Eug-lug] Sexiest Piece of networking gear you'll see all week

Ben Barrett stircrazyben at gmail.com
Wed Feb 21 19:44:16 PST 2007


It would be awesome to see this card benched on the quad-core
designs from both Intel and AMD -- I hear AMD is about to shine
brightly again :)   Throughput has been overlooked for too long,
and their memory management approach seems like it will scale
far better.  Sorry to get offtopic, I'll prolly get a ticket for wandering
in the median!  ;)

ben


On 2/21/07, Mr O <notanatheist at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> PCIe, not PCI-X or PCI. Serial bus. This ain't the carpool lane.
> You get your very own highway.
>
>
> --- Michael Miller <mike.mikemiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The question is.  Are you going to be able to get a high
> > amount of
> > bandwidth on a shared PCI bus system?  The only machines I've
> > personally seen high amounts of bandwidth pass though, are
> > systems
> > with separate dedicated buses.
> >
> > I.E HP 9000 system each PCI port is on it's own bus.  I'm not
> > sure
> > this is the case with off the shelf servers.  Unless things
> > have
> > changed.
> >
> > I'm off the bus now.
> >
> > -Miller
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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