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Onboard VGA and gigabyte ethernet - mutually exclusive on S754.
Hi
I'm looking for a S754 motherboard that will take a 3100+ 64-bit A64. I need it to have on-board gigabyte LAN as well as VGA, as I'm planning to mash it into a modded Compaq Deskpro SFF case at some point in the future when I upgrade to S939 dual-core. But I can't find ANY MBs that have both gig LAN and onboard VGA! I need onboard VGA because I don't think I'll be able to fit a video card into the SFF case I plan to mod. Know of any MBs? Thanks, Asfand Yar -- To reply, take of all ZIGs !! Alternative email address: IG |
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Onboard VGA and gigabyte ethernet - mutually exclusive on S754.
Asfand Yar Qazi wrote:
Hi I'm looking for a S754 motherboard that will take a 3100+ 64-bit A64. I need it to have on-board gigabyte LAN as well as VGA, as I'm planning to mash it into a modded Compaq Deskpro SFF case at some point in the future when I upgrade to S939 dual-core. But I can't find ANY MBs that have both gig LAN and onboard VGA! I need onboard VGA because I don't think I'll be able to fit a video card into the SFF case I plan to mod. Know of any MBs? Thanks, Asfand Yar I've just realised what an idiot I've been - I meant 'gigabit' not 'gigabyte'. -- To reply, take of all ZIGs !! Alternative email address: IG |
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Onboard VGA and gigabyte ethernet - mutually exclusive on S754.
Asfand Yar Qazi wrote:
Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: Hi I'm looking for a S754 motherboard that will take a 3100+ 64-bit A64. I need it to have on-board gigabyte LAN as well as VGA, as I'm planning to mash it into a modded Compaq Deskpro SFF case at some point in the future when I upgrade to S939 dual-core. But I can't find ANY MBs that have both gig LAN and onboard VGA! I need onboard VGA because I don't think I'll be able to fit a video card into the SFF case I plan to mod. Know of any MBs? Thanks, Asfand Yar I've just realised what an idiot I've been - I meant 'gigabit' not 'gigabyte'. Plenty of boards have on-board video. Any reason you need that fast of a LAN? Fastest copy times would be baed on hard drive read or write times. Even the very fastest SATA II drives only read at 60 meg or so. That's well under the 1 gigabit LAN rates. Even doing a file transfer from our server to my RAID0 computer, the transfer rates are only abut 60mbs. |
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Onboard VGA and gigabyte ethernet - mutually exclusive on S754.
Cal Vanize wrote:
Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: Hi I'm looking for a S754 motherboard that will take a 3100+ 64-bit A64. I need it to have on-board gigabyte LAN as well as VGA, as I'm planning to mash it into a modded Compaq Deskpro SFF case at some point in the future when I upgrade to S939 dual-core. But I can't find ANY MBs that have both gig LAN and onboard VGA! I need onboard VGA because I don't think I'll be able to fit a video card into the SFF case I plan to mod. Know of any MBs? Thanks, Asfand Yar I've just realised what an idiot I've been - I meant 'gigabit' not 'gigabyte'. Plenty of boards have on-board video. Any reason you need that fast of a LAN? Fastest copy times would be baed on hard drive read or write times. Even the very fastest SATA II drives only read at 60 meg or so. That's well under the 1 gigabit LAN rates. Even doing a file transfer from our server to my RAID0 computer, the transfer rates are only abut 60mbs. 60 Megabytes / sec = 480 Megabits / sec. So, with 100Mbps LAN, the LAN is the bottleneck. With 1000Mbps LAN, the drive is the bottleneck, but you're still carrying about 4 1/2 times more data. I'd rather have the hard drive as the bottleneck. BTW, I plan to do most of my file transfers from a RAID 1 setup, which gives the fastest sequential read speed. Oh well, since I can't find what I'm looking for (at least in the consumer space anyway, I'm sure solutions exist in the server market) I suppose I'll just get a really thin PCI Gigabit LAN card instead. I'll chop a bit off the metal bracket at the front, and should hopefully manage to squeeze it in. -- To reply, take of all ZIGs !! Alternative email address: IG |
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Onboard VGA and gigabyte ethernet - mutually exclusive on S754.
On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:34:40 +0100, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote:
Cal Vanize wrote: Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: Hi I'm looking for a S754 motherboard that will take a 3100+ 64-bit A64. I need it to have on-board gigabyte LAN as well as VGA, as I'm planning to mash it into a modded Compaq Deskpro SFF case at some point in the future when I upgrade to S939 dual-core. But I can't find ANY MBs that have both gig LAN and onboard VGA! I need onboard VGA because I don't think I'll be able to fit a video card into the SFF case I plan to mod. Know of any MBs? Thanks, Asfand Yar I've just realised what an idiot I've been - I meant 'gigabit' not 'gigabyte'. Plenty of boards have on-board video. Any reason you need that fast of a LAN? Fastest copy times would be baed on hard drive read or write times. Even the very fastest SATA II drives only read at 60 meg or so. That's well under the 1 gigabit LAN rates. Even doing a file transfer from our server to my RAID0 computer, the transfer rates are only abut 60mbs. 60 Megabytes / sec = 480 Megabits / sec. So, with 100Mbps LAN, the LAN is the bottleneck. With 1000Mbps LAN, the drive is the bottleneck, but you're still carrying about 4 1/2 times more data. I'd rather have the hard drive as the bottleneck. BTW, I plan to do most of my file transfers from a RAID 1 setup, which gives the fastest sequential read speed. Oh well, since I can't find what I'm looking for (at least in the consumer space anyway, I'm sure solutions exist in the server market) I suppose I'll just get a really thin PCI Gigabit LAN card instead. I'll chop a bit off the metal bracket at the front, and should hopefully manage to squeeze it in. If you really care about ethernet performance then make sure that you get a card that has some sort of IP acceleration, the cheap cards aren't going to do much a whole lot better than a 100T card (maybe 300MBits/second but certainly not 1000MBits/second). The ethernet MAC in the Nforce4 does have IP acceleration support and it is capable of delivering near wire speeds. Instead of compromising your motherboard why don't you just get a decent case? |
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Onboard VGA and gigabyte ethernet - mutually exclusive on S754.
Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: Cal Vanize wrote: Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: Hi I'm looking for a S754 motherboard that will take a 3100+ 64-bit A64. I need it to have on-board gigabyte LAN as well as VGA, as I'm planning to mash it into a modded Compaq Deskpro SFF case at some point in the future when I upgrade to S939 dual-core. But I can't find ANY MBs that have both gig LAN and onboard VGA! I need onboard VGA because I don't think I'll be able to fit a video card into the SFF case I plan to mod. Know of any MBs? Thanks, Asfand Yar I've just realised what an idiot I've been - I meant 'gigabit' not 'gigabyte'. Plenty of boards have on-board video. Any reason you need that fast of a LAN? Fastest copy times would be baed on hard drive read or write times. Even the very fastest SATA II drives only read at 60 meg or so. That's well under the 1 gigabit LAN rates. Even doing a file transfer from our server to my RAID0 computer, the transfer rates are only abut 60mbs. 60 Megabytes / sec = 480 Megabits / sec. So, with 100Mbps LAN, the LAN is the bottleneck. With 1000Mbps LAN, the drive is the bottleneck, but you're still carrying about 4 1/2 times more data. Megabits not megabytes. You made that speed mistake earlier and came to the wrong conclusios regarding bandwidth utilization. I'm doing a file transfer as I write this and am getting 56 megabits per second rate based on the read speed of the server and the write speed of the hard drive at the client. Fact is that ALL hard drives are much slower then their advertised 100, 133, 150 or 300 megabit per second transfer rate. The fastest barely cracks 70 megabits per second sustained. See http://www20.tomshardware.com/2005/09/27/round/ for supporting data. Therefore, a gigabit LAN doesn't do ANYTHING for performance since the bottleneck is INSIDE the server or client Check to see if you currently have noetwork contention and address that problem. It might be as simple as swapping out an ethernet hub for an ethernet switch. I'd rather have the hard drive as the bottleneck. BTW, I plan to do most of my file transfers from a RAID 1 setup, which gives the fastest sequential read speed. I hate to burst your balloon, but that's not correct. RAID 1 is no faster than a single drive and in real-world applications may actually be a little slower. RAID 0 provides a speed improvement of up to about 60% which pumps it up to about 100 megabits INTERNAL transfer rates. The make and model of the drives being used in RAID 0 will impact the speed of the array. A pair of 80gb WD SATA drives in RAID 0 will not perform as well as a pair of 160gb WD PATA drives in RAID 0. Physics is just working against you when you move from theory to real world applications with fragmented files. Its dooubtful whether you'll actually see a sustained transfer rate greater than 100 megabits per second into our out of your computer except for very short bursts from a drive buffer. Oh well, since I can't find what I'm looking for (at least in the consumer space anyway, I'm sure solutions exist in the server market) I suppose I'll just get a really thin PCI Gigabit LAN card instead. I'll chop a bit off the metal bracket at the front, and should hopefully manage to squeeze it in. |
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Onboard VGA and gigabyte ethernet - mutually exclusive on S754.
General Schvantzkoph wrote:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:34:40 +0100, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: Cal Vanize wrote: Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: Hi I'm looking for a S754 motherboard that will take a 3100+ 64-bit A64. I need it to have on-board gigabyte LAN as well as VGA, as I'm planning to mash it into a modded Compaq Deskpro SFF case at some point in the future when I upgrade to S939 dual-core. But I can't find ANY MBs that have both gig LAN and onboard VGA! I need onboard VGA because I don't think I'll be able to fit a video card into the SFF case I plan to mod. Know of any MBs? Thanks, Asfand Yar I've just realised what an idiot I've been - I meant 'gigabit' not 'gigabyte'. Plenty of boards have on-board video. Any reason you need that fast of a LAN? Fastest copy times would be baed on hard drive read or write times. Even the very fastest SATA II drives only read at 60 meg or so. That's well under the 1 gigabit LAN rates. Even doing a file transfer from our server to my RAID0 computer, the transfer rates are only abut 60mbs. 60 Megabytes / sec = 480 Megabits / sec. So, with 100Mbps LAN, the LAN is the bottleneck. With 1000Mbps LAN, the drive is the bottleneck, but you're still carrying about 4 1/2 times more data. I'd rather have the hard drive as the bottleneck. BTW, I plan to do most of my file transfers from a RAID 1 setup, which gives the fastest sequential read speed. Oh well, since I can't find what I'm looking for (at least in the consumer space anyway, I'm sure solutions exist in the server market) I suppose I'll just get a really thin PCI Gigabit LAN card instead. I'll chop a bit off the metal bracket at the front, and should hopefully manage to squeeze it in. If you really care about ethernet performance then make sure that you get a card that has some sort of IP acceleration, the cheap cards aren't going to do much a whole lot better than a 100T card (maybe 300MBits/second but certainly not 1000MBits/second). The ethernet MAC in the Nforce4 does have IP acceleration support and it is capable of delivering near wire speeds. Instead of compromising your motherboard why don't you just get a decent case? It's not a matter of getting a decent case... its a matter of getting a decent case that's small. Those cost bucket-loads. But, I think I just might get one anyway... it'll be worth it in the long term. I suppose I'll go for a nforce 4 4x mATX jobby then, which has, according to you, "proper" Gbit lan. -- To reply, take of all ZIGs !! Alternative email address: IG |
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Onboard VGA and gigabyte ethernet - mutually exclusive on S754.
On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 12:14:38 -0500, Cal Vanize
wrote: mk wrote: On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:30:07 -0500, Cal Vanize wrote: Any reason you need that fast of a LAN? Fastest copy times would be baed on hard drive read or write times. Even the very fastest SATA II drives only read at 60 meg or so. That's well under the 1 gigabit LAN rates. Even doing a file transfer from our server to my RAID0 computer, the transfer rates are only abut 60mbs. 60 Megabytes / sec = 480 Megabits / sec. So, with 100Mbps LAN, the LAN is the bottleneck. With 1000Mbps LAN, the drive is the bottleneck, but you're still carrying about 4 1/2 times more data. Megabits not megabytes. You made that speed mistake earlier and came to the wrong conclusios regarding bandwidth utilization. I'm doing a file transfer as I write this and am getting 56 megabits per second rate based on the read speed of the server and the write speed of the hard drive at the client. Fact is that ALL hard drives are much slower then their advertised 100, 133, 150 or 300 megabit per second transfer rate. The fastest barely cracks 70 megabits per second sustained. See http://www20.tomshardware.com/2005/09/27/round/ for supporting data. I think it's you who is confused. On this page http://www20.tomshardware.com/2005/0...nd/page35.html it shows that the minimum read speed of the slowest drive is 25 MB/s ie 150 Mb/s. Good ard drive read channels are doing around 500 Mb/s these days. The fastest drive on this list has an average read speed of 63 MB/s or around 500 Mb/s. Not exactly. I think you need to read it again. The rates to which you refer cannot be attained through the drive interface. Therefore its all stated in megabits. Look at this page: http://www20.tomshardware.com/2005/0...und/page2.html and read the second paragraph. When these benchmarks talk about MB/s it is Mbytes/s. The interface ratings are also in Mega Bytes / second. Serial ATA has an interface timing of 1.5 Gigabits per second ie 187.5 MB/s but with the coding overhead actual data rate is 150 Mbytes/s. PATA is rated at 33 or 66 MHz at 16 bits per transfer or 66 to 132 Mbytes/s. The interface ratings are all above the actual data rates. I think you're missing something here. |
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Onboard VGA and gigabyte ethernet - mutually exclusive on S754.
mk wrote: On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 12:14:38 -0500, Cal Vanize wrote: mk wrote: On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:30:07 -0500, Cal Vanize wrote: Any reason you need that fast of a LAN? Fastest copy times would be baed on hard drive read or write times. Even the very fastest SATA II drives only read at 60 meg or so. That's well under the 1 gigabit LAN rates. Even doing a file transfer from our server to my RAID0 computer, the transfer rates are only abut 60mbs. 60 Megabytes / sec = 480 Megabits / sec. So, with 100Mbps LAN, the LAN is the bottleneck. With 1000Mbps LAN, the drive is the bottleneck, but you're still carrying about 4 1/2 times more data. Megabits not megabytes. You made that speed mistake earlier and came to the wrong conclusios regarding bandwidth utilization. I'm doing a file transfer as I write this and am getting 56 megabits per second rate based on the read speed of the server and the write speed of the hard drive at the client. Fact is that ALL hard drives are much slower then their advertised 100, 133, 150 or 300 megabit per second transfer rate. The fastest barely cracks 70 megabits per second sustained. See http://www20.tomshardware.com/2005/09/27/round/ for supporting data. I think it's you who is confused. On this page http://www20.tomshardware.com/2005/0...nd/page35.html it shows that the minimum read speed of the slowest drive is 25 MB/s ie 150 Mb/s. Good ard drive read channels are doing around 500 Mb/s these days. The fastest drive on this list has an average read speed of 63 MB/s or around 500 Mb/s. Not exactly. I think you need to read it again. The rates to which you refer cannot be attained through the drive interface. Therefore its all stated in megabits. Look at this page: http://www20.tomshardware.com/2005/0...und/page2.html and read the second paragraph. When these benchmarks talk about MB/s it is Mbytes/s. The interface ratings are also in Mega Bytes / second. Serial ATA has an interface timing of 1.5 Gigabits per second ie 187.5 MB/s but with the coding overhead actual data rate is 150 Mbytes/s. PATA is rated at 33 or 66 MHz at 16 bits per transfer or 66 to 132 Mbytes/s. The interface ratings are all above the actual data rates. I think you're missing something here. I think the part I've missed is that all the rates are stated in bytes, not bits. My misunderstanding. That being the case, the whole scenario changes. I might even try gigabit LAN to see what difference it makes. |
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Onboard VGA and gigabyte ethernet - mutually exclusive on S754.
It's not a matter of getting a decent case... its a matter of getting a decent case that's small. Those cost bucket-loads. But, I think I just might get one anyway... it'll be worth it in the long term. I suppose I'll go for a nforce 4 4x mATX jobby then, which has, according to you, "proper" Gbit lan. That's the right thing to do. You don't want to compromise your system performance because of a box. There are a lot of small cases out there that ought to be able to meet most of your requirements and not force you to give up the performance features that are important to you. |
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