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WalkinG

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Hi,

I'm just wondering, what you put in the PCI slot of SFF? Soundcard, NIC, I/O ?
 
most of the P4 guys put a different sound card, b/c the stock one sucks

i have a shuttle sn45g w/ soundstorm audio, therefore i use my pci slot for my gigabit nic card

some of them have TV tuners,

the people with temperature paranoia uses the pci slot fan
 
therefore i use my pci slot for my gigabit nic card
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What you use it for? I don't think there is much difference to 100Mb card, couse' it still uses 32bit PCI slot.
 
the onboard nic lets upload at a maximum 10mb/s

the gigabit nic (when connected p2p) gets 30mb/s
the gigabit nic and my 16port switch/and 1 gigabit port, lets me swap files with great speed and ease... its a huge difference when many people are pulling large files from you at once
 
I put in an Antec PCI slot fan. Not sure how much it's really doing, cuz the CPU temp is still up at 55C.
 
WalkinG said:
What you use it for? I don't think there is much difference to 100Mb card, couse' it still uses 32bit PCI slot.
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You don't get the full gigabit speed with a 32bit slot, but you will get an improvement. I went from around 90mbit with my 100mbit network to 225mbit using gigabit. Definitely helps when transferring large files around the network.
 
I have a Leadtek WinTV2000 Expert... watch tv on it. One less thing to move around every 4 months...
 
WalkinG said:
What you use it for? I don't think there is much difference to 100Mb card, couse' it still uses 32bit PCI slot.
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but...PCI has 32 bit / 8 bits/bytes * 33,000,000 hz = 133 megs a sec transfer. Gigabit translates to 1000 mbit / 8 = 125 megs a sec, assuming 5 megs overhead, it should be fine...
 
Mine is being used right now as an HTPC, so I use the PCI slot for a 802.11G wireless NIC. The audio is perfect into the optical port in my reciever ;)
 
kronchev said:
but...PCI has 32 bit / 8 bits/bytes * 33,000,000 hz = 133 megs a sec transfer. Gigabit translates to 1000 mbit / 8 = 125 megs a sec, assuming 5 megs overhead, it should be fine...
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yes but that data has to come from somewhere ;)
 
Audigy2.



in the past, I've had a Leadtek TV-2000XP(w/ internal audio mod), a Hauppauge PVR-350.

But, with the P4 systems...Audigy2.
 
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