[News] Two new µ-A1's models on the way | ANN.lu |
Posted on 28-Aug-2004 15:44 GMT by Still Articia? | 170 comments View flat View list |
Two MiniITX A1's models are on the way, both G3. The first one is very similar to the "beta" versions that was sold earlier. The price for this one will be $600USD/500EUR, excluding VAT. The other version will also offer some more features such as Firewire, Gigabit Ethernet and an additional (custom?) PCI connector, and will cost $700USD/600EUR.
More info at: http://www.eyetech.co.uk/addbar.php?Address=/NEWS/TWONE001.HTM
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Posted by Anonymous on 30-Aug-2004 15:43 GMT | In reply to Comment 125 (Adam Kowalczyk): "The Gigbait chip is on PCI 0. I'm really not too worried about GB ethernet being limited by the bus speed. Keep in mind that some applications are intended to be diskless where the network device is going to be the highest utilized device."
If you look at some Gb benchmark, you will notice that "normal" PCI chipset are far behind the others (which use faster buses or directly in the NB).
Moreover, usually you can not operate a NIC without DMA. GB ethernet traffic will stress quiet a lot the chipset (which also have to take care of the others PCI devices in the same time...)
And we know where DMA leads with the ArticiaS...
So I would really worry about if I would own a such machine |
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