[geeks] Apple/Intel another (pre | per )ceptive article

[Phil Brutsche]

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> PCI-E is starting to show up on cards other than graphics.  I saw an
> ad for a PCI-E SATA raid card yesterday, and I 've seen talk of PCI-E
> 10GigE and Quad GigE cards.

And SCSI RAID, and ethernet... the 10 GB and 4x 1GB ethernet cards use 4
x lane slots and are typically only found in server designs.

Single-port 1GB ethernet cards that use a 1x slot are becoming more common:

http://www.d-link.com/products/?sec=1&pid=406

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Phil Brutsche
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