On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 00:28, bill wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > >Truly Wow then.. I didn't know you could bind all 4 and get a large > >throughtput. But hey, doesn't that mean that you would need a GiG Switch > >to realise that speeds or is it that it means 4 diff RJ45s into 4 diff > >ports on the switch? I think that's it. > > > > > The technique used 4 ports on a switch. That was back when Gig switches > cost as much as a late model used car. Folks used 100mbps switches > instead and used port aggregation to boost performance. /wonder IS this still being done in a large manner?? > > >What's thei buffer? Is the the RAM? I've not seen any options for 32k. > >(only like 16MB/32MB/64MB) > > > > > Sorry - I meant 32M of RAM. I haven't seen a mobo with any more than > 32M, but if more were available, I wouldn't use it because 32M gives me > the 1024x768 at max color depth I need to run a descent X server. The 8M > default that I've seen is incompatible with an X server, and lots of 8 MB insn't Enough?? I've used a 1MB laptop Neomagic to run X on RH8. I've seen that most Servers from DELL comes with the 8MB ATI Rage cards -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:05:40 up 1:40, 5 users, load average: 0.71, 0.75, 0.71
