3com 10/100/1000 PCI-X Card Onsale!

[OC-Master]

3com 10/100/1000 PCI-X Card Onsale! Now if only there is a motherboard out there with PCI-X...

http://www.3com.co.kr/products/nics/3C996-T.html


DS-Master

[ajrettke]

I meen i'm all about fast speeds....but what wiould you get from 1 gb/s bandwidth? I meen the only people or places that would need or even benefiet really are servers....your DSL/cable/school connection is hard pressed to get over 10mb/s....but....none the less your right that is pretty cool!

[Audioaficionado]

Isn't the PCI-X Card slot those extra long slots you see in server mobos?

[stompah]

I guess someday we will need all that bandwidth... For now I rarely need more than .5mb/s...

I guess somewhere out there is a company that is transfering mega size files.

[Audioaficionado]

Originally posted by stompah
I guess someday we will need all that bandwidth... For now I rarely need more than .5mb/s...

I guess somewhere out there is a company that is transfering mega size files.

Yeah like when we use it someday to generate a hologram like in 'The Sixth Day' LOL.

[chuckerants]

I'm impressed that you guys can all read Korean. :)

[Spec_Ops2087]

1gb of bandwith???

correct me if I'm wrong but I thought with things like that it isn't MB(Megabytes) but Mb(Megabits)...if that is correct then that would be 100MB per second...not 1,000MB(1GB) per second



Spec

[Jon]

It's a Gigabit adapter.

[Spec_Ops2087]

oh lol....stupid me.....

Thanx jon



Spec

[jayson]

yer those cards are for 64bit pci slots the longer than normal slots. i think :)

[OC-Master]

PXI-X is the next generation in PCI technology. Within two years from now, all computers will have PCI-X slots in them and then 1/10 Gigabit ethernet cards will become available.

The first computers to have PCI-X available will be AMD's K8 Architecture. Its now up to chipset manufacturers to implement these slots.

BTW, PCI-X 32-bit is infact longer slot but its backwards compatible with the original PCI. There is also a 64-bit version of PCI-X for servers which doubles the transfer rates to 2GB/s Max throughput.

The sad thing is, thats true, Intel wants to skip Gigabit ethernet for home and just go straight to 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet cards (1/10/100/1000/10000), see link below,

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20020507net.htm