Ok, what is PCI-X?
In particular reference to this Asus mobo: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=337843
I have never seen those ports before and can't immediately find anything.
Sorry for being stupid!
Thanks,
ShMeE
Ok, what is PCI-X?
In particular reference to this Asus mobo: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=337843
I have never seen those ports before and can't immediately find anything.
Sorry for being stupid!
Thanks,
ShMeE
Current: Shuttle SX58J3, i7 950, Corsair 16GB, 2x 1.5TB, XFX 6850 1GB, 3x Samsung 23" 1920x1080, 5760x1080 = AWESOME!
Laptop: Vaio Z (13.3")
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PCI-X is a kind of PCI slot used for servers.
Normal PCI slots we use are 32Bit 33Mhz with a maximum bandwidth of 133MB/s
PCI-X (1.0) goes up to 64Bit 133Mhz which gives 1066MB/s
So that you could rack up 16 raptors and still not starve of bandwidth.
Mostly used for raid cards, fibre adapters, multi-port network cards and high end multi-channel hdtv capture cards or anything that is bandwidth demanding.
Not that its useful for 99% of the home users but abundunce of cheap 8+ port raid cards available on PCI-X unlike PCIe
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Ahh ok, thanks, so not for me then
Thanks,
ShMeE
Current: Shuttle SX58J3, i7 950, Corsair 16GB, 2x 1.5TB, XFX 6850 1GB, 3x Samsung 23" 1920x1080, 5760x1080 = AWESOME!
Laptop: Vaio Z (13.3")
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home-pc boards completely bypassed PCI-X as its not easy to implement electronically compared to normal PCI and PCI-e and no one ever REALLY needed it... its a shame given the amount of ex-enterprise cards like u160 scsi and now SATA ones getting sold for nothing on ebay
you can use them in a normal pci slot and theyll downclock to 32bit/33mhz
so that means 133mb/s max bandwidth instead of, say 533mb/s with 64bit/66mhz and that includes everything in the pci bus (cards but also a lot of onboard stuff sometimes) so its not really worth the effort compared to onboard pci-e
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