[NTLUG:Discuss] PCIE Network Card Recommendation

[Chris Cox]

Ralph wrote:
> Howdy,
>   This all seems pretty reasonable.  Of late production PCI cards,
> Intel, including gig-E card seem to be top notch.  I am curious if
> people are getting better throughput on these gig-E PCIE cards.  It does
> seem that plain PCI cards are constrained by the bus speed.  Does the
> PCIE card perform twice as fast?

Twice... of course.  A typical 33Mhz PCI will only do <600Mbit.
You can get full gigabit PLUS with PCIe... plus?  Plus in the
fact that you can have 4 gigabit ports on a lowly x4 PCIe without
breaking a sweat (Intel does have a 4 port card).

If all you have is PCI, you really need PCI-X speeds to
do full gigabit.