[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: OT: New Hardware Question

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 09:45, Kermit Jones wrote:
> Just the board I was looking at.  Thanks for clarification.  I need a 
> few pci slots now, but wanted the PCIe for later.

The on-board SATA and NIC are connected to PCIe x1 channels, so that's
ideal.  And then you have (2) more PCIe x1 slots, as well as the video
PCIe x16.

The PCI are like 99.9% of other mainboards, all in a shared
arrangement.  And some of the other, on-board peripherals are attached
to it (audio, [P]ATA, FireWire, USB, etc...).

PCIe is largely designed for the consumer, finally bringing segmented
I/O that only $300+ mainboards had for workstations/servers prior.

> BTW, Bryan, I tried emailing you off list, but get:
> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
>   b.j.smith at ieee.org
>     Connection refused:
>     retry timeout exceeded

I'm still trying to figure out what service to use permanently.  The
Earthlink account I'm using is good, but the SPAM filter seems to be too
aggressive.  Is anyone just popping from GMail (is that even possible)?

> I'm using kermit AT freelifeministries DOT org

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Bryan J. Smith                                    b.j.smith at ieee.org 
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