Jon Burgess wrote: > Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > >> Oh,.. thats bad,.. uhm is this sure? As I told my board hast 3 PCI-X >> slots (2 with 100MHz and 1 with 133MHz) and one conventional PCI slot >> (33MHz). I think the PCI and the PCI-X buses have each their own >> controller. >> But if you're true and the wohle buse runs at the spead of the >> slowest card, that would imply that if I'm using one of the two >> 100MHz slots (with 100MHz PCI-X cards) than I wouldn't be able to use >> the 133MHz in the 3rd slot. > > > Not quite, according to the info on the motherbaord: > ? Two independent 64-bit PCI-X buses > - Slot 4 & 5: PCI-X 100 MHz max. (Bridge B) > - Slot 6: PCI-X 133 MHz max. (Bridge A) Oh,.. yes,.. you're right... *embarrased* and that although I read the manual yesterday (when I put the new PC together) - did I mention how great my new PC is? Two DualCore Opterons,.. ahhhh > If you plugged the card into a 100MHz slot it should only effect the > other 100MHz slot, the 133MHz slot is independant. > > arstechnica.com does a decent job of comparing PCI/PCI-X & PCIe here > http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/hardware/pcie.ars/1 thx :) cam. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: cam.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 449 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/attachments/20050930/f4c75e97/cam.vcf
