Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:27:07 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer@netfence.it>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI Express 1x NIC Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060302102357.0267dc80@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <4407196E.2010700@netfence.it> References: <4407196E.2010700@netfence.it>
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PCI Express is NOT PCI-X
PCI-X is larger slot usually running faster at 66MHz vs. standard PCI at
33MHz. PCI-X is found mostly on server motherboards.
PCI Express is a small connector found on primarily desktop motherboards.
-Derek
At 10:12 AM 3/2/2006, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
>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.
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