[wplug] PCI-Express

[Duncan Hutty]

Mike wrote:
 >What's the general consensus on PCI Express and Linux? I got a good 
deal on a Dell PowerEdge server, which, in fact, I intend to use as a 
desktop. When I bought it, though, I didn't realize that it has PCX 
instead of AGP.

 >Is PCX support good for Linux (Gentoo in my case)? Which card should I 
get for this box (less than $200, please)? Any warnings or anecdotes 
about PCX on Linux would be appreciated.

It is easy to confuse the terminology here since the PCI SIG haven't 
made terms for the different technologies easily distinguishable.
PCI, PCI-X and PCI-Express are all different. I suspect that you're 
referring to PCI-Express.

In general, the nvidia drivers are considered to have better 3D 
performance and stability on linux than ATI. However determining where 
the advantage lies based on your intended usage will require some 
significant research. You need to consider first what your intended 
usage is. A good starting point would be the multimedia, kernel/hardware 
and gaming gentoo forums. I would suggest that unless you're planning on 
very recent games, or other high resource requirement purposes and 
you're very concerned about performance, *any* PCI-express card will be 
fine.

Duncan Hutty

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