The statment that 64 bit are backward compatible with 32 bit slots is not all together true. I have tried to place several different cards in these slots and have found that they do not work well this is the case on a 6300 dell Quad Zeon Michael Hartnett -----Original Message----- From: owner-firewall-wizardsat_private [mailto:owner-firewall-wizardsat_private]On Behalf Of Roelof JT Jonkman Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 11:02 AM To: Joe Ippolito; firewall-wizardsat_private Subject: Re: Nokia/Checkpoint firewall Joe, In general 64 bit pci cards are backward compatible with 32 bit slots, if I'm not mistaken the adaptec quad will work in a 32 bit slot. Besides supermicro and tyan are either out or coming out with boards based on the intel 840 chipset that have 2 64 bit pci slots, which will put the 64 bit pci market down to something semi reasonable pricewise. As far as pure bandwidth goes on the pci bus, 32bit should do you. At the extreme (theoretical) end you have 132 Mbyte/s to play with. You may want to check the the dlink site for the dfe570tx, a 4 port card based on the Digital/Intel 21143, very solid, proven ethernet chipset. If it doesn't have win2k drivers, I'm guessing it will rather soon, since that is its market segment. (www.dlink.com) And at the pricetag its hard to beat, ~$180 roel
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