From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-47145-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1G53ES-0007vP-Ou for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:24:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6OGNLxi027901; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:23:21 GMT Received: from gimli.home.gaima.co.uk (brad.comodogroup.com [82.109.38.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6OGHobR004534 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:17:50 GMT Received: (qmail 4844 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2006 17:17:46 +0100 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Jul 2006 17:17:46 +0100 From: Mike Williams <mike@gaima.co.uk> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] very [OT] PCI-Express Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:17:42 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607241717.44940.mike@gaima.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 3e0182e5-bdfb-4293-99e6-8c6ab4e3bc09 X-Archives-Hash: 5b91c450e8842f7ede73f369b0b7e351 Hey, AGP provide a lot more bandwidth then PCI, but only really for graphics cards. PCI-e also provides a lot more bandwidth than PCI, and can be used for just about anything. However, can one of the 2 x16 slots (be they both fully x16 or sharing 16 lanes) on an SLi board be used for something other than a graphics card, while the other is used for a graphics card? Ta -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list