From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C7C8215864F for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2023 09:30:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00C90E081E; Mon, 27 Mar 2023 09:30:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7DDA8E07E6 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2023 09:30:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host81-156-202-200.range81-156.btcentralplus.com ([81.156.202.200] helo=[192.168.1.99]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1pgjBJ-000BtC-E6 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2023 10:30:25 +0100 Message-ID: <2b28be5d-0715-2633-3856-bd668a2758f4@youngman.org.uk> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 10:30:24 +0100 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.9.0 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PCIe x1 or PCIe x4 SATA controller card Content-Language: en-GB To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <57322874-e9c0-2f2c-8994-43438fe72995@gmail.com> <5d324904-4d4d-a02c-4a8a-cd985b170df6@gmail.com> From: Wols Lists In-Reply-To: <5d324904-4d4d-a02c-4a8a-cd985b170df6@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 8189f504-2cca-44c4-806a-e8fbf3dd7724 X-Archives-Hash: 9b0c814a8c4566e89c2eea375c19252d On 27/03/2023 01:18, Dale wrote: > Thanks for any light you can shed on this.  Googling just leads to a ton > of confusion.  What's true 6 months ago is wrong today.  :/  It's hard > to tell what still applies. Well, back in the days of the megahurtz wars, a higher clock speed allegedly meant a faster CPU. Now they all run about 5GHz, and anything faster would break the speed of light ... so how they do it nowadays I really don't know ... Cheers, Wol