PCIe network cards?

[NightFalcon]

Hello, I've been searching for a while now, but so far no real luck. Does anyone know if there are PCIe 1x network cards out there? I just ordered myself an SC420 dell server that I'm planning on using as my firewall and I'll need to add 2 more nics to it. Would very much like to make one sit on the PCIe slot instead of sharing the PCI bandwidth on a gigabit network.

If you have any links, please let me know. Thanks.

 

[spidey07]

intel, they're even making 10 gig cards now.

http://www.intel.com/network/connectivi...roducts/pro10GbE_SR_server_adapter.htm

 

[NightFalcon]

nvm... you beat me to the link.

But what is that??? I need just regular gigabit card and for PCIe... that one is PCI-X to start with.

 

[bersl2]

http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=406

For starters.

Edit: also http://www.broadcom.com/products/Enterp...e/Gigabit+Ethernet+Controllers/BCM5751

 

[dashiki]

pci-e pci-x??? /me confused aren't they he same?

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: NightFalcon
nvm... you beat me to the link.

But what is that??? I need just regular gigabit card and for PCIe... that one is PCI-X to start with.

I'm just saying that intel has a long history of producing simply incredibe network cards...I'd look to them first. that card is a 10 gigabit ethernet card.

 

[bersl2]

Originally posted by: dashiki
pci-e pci-x??? /me confused aren't they he same?

Nope.

PCI-X is backwards compatable with PCI and has much more bandwidth, but it is still a shared bus. PCI Express (PCI-e, PCI-E, PCIe, or a whole host of other acronyms) uses a dedicated bus for each device and is not backwards compatable.

 

[NightFalcon]

Originally posted by: spidey07
I'm just saying that intel has a long history of producing simply incredibe network cards...I'd look to them first. that card is a 10 gigabit ethernet card.

Well that may be so, but they don't seem to be manufacturing any PCI Express cards, so not much point in me looking at them.

bersl2, thanks for those links, but the second one is to a controller, not an actual card. That d-link looks good, but so far it seems that the only place to get it from is from the manufacturer for $95. Seems a bit too much, but if that's all I can find then I may end up going with it. Thanks.

 

[eplebnista]

Link

 

[Gogar]

I'm also looking for them... i want to build a small cluster so i'm interested to know if the latencies will be lower than regular PCI gigabit nics.