Stroller wrote:
On 15 Feb 2008, at 05:12, Dale wrote:
Dale makes a note of this. Questions: If I buy this card and a SATA
hard drive, will I notice faster transfer speed on the drive or will
the PCI bus limit it somehow? I currently get 40 to 50 MBs/sec on my
IDE drives. Would this setup be any faster?
If you want faster throughput then onboard controllers or PCI-express
(PCI-e) are the way to go.
I'm not sure how the bandwidth of regular old PCI compares to (i.e.
limits) that of an SATA harddrive, but you can come across PCI's
performance limitations if using a RAID array. PCI-express has
_signifcantly_ more capacity than regular old PCI - I read recently
that regular old PCI may be unable to keep up with a gigabit network
card & that onboard gigbit network ports are faster.
I tend to think of PCI-X just as "long PCI" or only-a-bit-faster-than
PCI. It might be (say?) double the speed of short PCI, but it doesn't
match PCI-e's several-times (?) performance. PCI-X may be useful when
trying to get the best performance out of an older motherboard, or if
you're trying to save money by picking up an expensive hardware-RAID
card cheaper secondhand, but I would try to avoid investing too much
money in it until you've done the maths - a new motherboard / CPU /
RAM might even be cheaper & faster.
Stroller.
So basically I need to build a new rig with newer stuff? I have a old
Abit NF7-2.0 mobo right now. I want to build a rig with dual CPUs and
all the "new" stuff. Got to save up some serious cash first tho. Being
disabled makes that take a little time.
Thanks for the info.
Dale
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