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Hi,
Ive been looking for a single proc board for socket a with a 64bit pci slot (to make the bets of my scsi card), any one seen any?
Thanks,
Craig
felix88
01-12-2003, 12:06 PM
i assume you are looking for an AMD board. if this is the case, i've never seen a non SMP board with 64bit pci slots.
if you are only running the single IBM 10K drive you have in your sig, you don't need 64bit pci. that drive can't max out your pci bus by itself.
Yup, thats what it was for, the scsi card is also 64 bit, thanks for your help.
Craig
felix88
01-14-2003, 12:45 AM
the 64bit pci card SHOULD be backwards compatable, but i'm not 100% positive that it is.
It is 32bit compatible, I have it in my rig now! Just wanted a 64bit slot because I thought I could squeeze better performance from it!
However you've said my hard-drive wont push PCI anyways. I thought it might because it is an Ultra 160 so is theoretically capable of 160Mbps data transfer speeds and PI can only do 133.
What is the typical data transfer rate of a U160 SCSI drive do you know?
Thanks,
Craig
felix88
01-14-2003, 11:52 AM
it depends on the drive. as you said earlier, the U160 is the maximum speed it can handle, it's probably never going to go that fast.
if you want to know the approximate benchmarked speed of your drive, check out storagereview.
http://www.storagereview.com
if you want to benchmark the drive yourself, check out my thread in the benchmarks forum.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7899
Cheers Felix
I will try those benchmarking proggies some time
Craig