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PCI express tutorial
If you are looking to learn more about PCI express, you will definitely benefit from looking at hardware secret's PCI Express tutorial! They provide a good introduction to PCI express theory, and provide numerous charts to show bandwidth and available configurations! Good stuff!
$ read more →PCI Express and DDR2 -- worth the money?
While ignoring my own advice and reading various Mac rumor sites today, I saw that the next generation Powermacs may ship with DDR2 memory and PCI express video cards. Being the geek I am, I wandered off to see how much throughput could be achieved with each technology. I started my knowledge quest by reading PCSTATS PCI Express tutorial, and was blown away by the potential of PCI Express. Not only does PCI express move considerably more data than PCI (250MB/s vs…
$ read more →Hardware redundancy
While reading through Mike Shapiro's FMA presentation today, I came across two cool new hardware technologies. The first is FBDIMM, which Micron describes as: Address/command soft errors can disrupt server performance and reliability. To help lessen their occurrence, Micron's FBDIMMs incorporate an enhanced cyclic redundancy check (CRC) that provides greater data and address/command protection than traditional server modules. Designers can also configure it to suit their particular applications…
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