From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 2 16:12:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404C516A420 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:12:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ml.diespammer@netfence.it) Received: from parrot.aev.net (parrot.aev.net [212.31.247.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8728F43D45 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:12:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ml.diespammer@netfence.it) Received: from soth.ventu (adsl-ull-121-243.51-151.net24.it [151.51.243.121]) (authenticated bits=128) by parrot.aev.net (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k22GOXCC047254 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 17:24:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml.diespammer@netfence.it) Received: from [10.1.2.18] (alamar.ventu [10.1.2.18]) by soth.ventu (8.13.5/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k22GBTPQ023589 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 17:11:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml.diespammer@netfence.it) Message-ID: <4407196E.2010700@netfence.it> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:12:30 +0100 From: Andrea Venturoli User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060130) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 212.31.247.179 Subject: PCI Express 1x NIC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:12:44 -0000 Hello. I'v got an MB which is going to run 6.0/AMD64. It features a "PCI Express x1" slot. Has anyone had any experience with such a NIC? Altought this is gonna be Gigabit, I'm more insterested in stability than in performance. Also, slightly OT, is PCI-Express aka PCI-X? Or is it PCI-E? None of the two? :) bye & Thanks av.