Pairing J1900 and intel I340-T2 card, bottleneck?
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Hi Guys,
Recently bought ASRock Q1900M quad core motherboard and an intel I340-T2 dual port card.
However, Asrock board only has PCIE 2.0 x1 lan, and I340-T2 requires x4 as I believe.
Will this bottleneck the performence? or should I swap to another board?
Thanks.
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Will this bottleneck the performence? or should I swap to another board?
Maybe it will be a bottleneck. Try it out and do some speed tests.
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If the x4 card works in x1 slot (it should), there should be enough bandwidth. A PCIe 2.0 x 1 slot should be good for about 4Gbps each way (after overhead - actually good for 5 gigatransfers each way minus about 20% or so for overhead). That should be good enough to easily power that card's bandwidth requirement.
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I have the ASRock J1900 with a dual intel nic (x2 PCI) and w/ careful trimming of the back of the x1 slot have had it working just fine for nearly 1 year.