64bit/66MHz PCI mobos (Intel STL2, Asus CUR-DLS)

[Greg Lindahl]

On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 06:46:55PM -0400, Chris Black wrote:

> We have been looking into motherboards that provide 64-bit 66MHz 
> PCI slots and haven't had much luck.

Myricom highly recommends the Serverworks chipsets, and most of the
recently-built large Myrinet clusters followed their advice. Benchmarks
show it's a pretty damn good PCI implementation.

> Has anyone found any motherboards that can reliably do 66MHz/64bit 
> PCI bus transfers? We are trying to maximize the performance of 
> our gigabit cards which do support 66MHz/64bit operation.

But for gigE, surely you've got software bandwidth limits far more
important than the PCI limit?

-- g