The bigger, better bus has enough capacity for bandwidth-hungry cards -- such as Gigabit Ethernet, 2-Gbps Fibre Channel and 10-Gbps Ethernet. Right now, the GC-HE chipset provides only 100-MHz support for the PCI-X bus. This is unfortunate for the servers we tested, but not unexpected, considering the youth of the technologies involved. The GC-HE chipset also provides many utilitarian and legacy features, such as PCI 2.2 support, a four-port USB 1.0 interface, dual ATA-100 support and support for ACPI power and event management.
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