<Chipset? What does that have to do with anything you're asking about. Celeron PC's use PCI, just get a PCI SCSI card add up to 15 drives and a multiport NIC, with 6-8 jacks.>
Most motherboards based on Intel chipsets feature five PCI slots, not six. Remember that the article said Compaq's server will have five Ethernet cards, not jacks. With all five slots gone, where does that SCSI card go?
And second, even if there is a motherboard that has six PCI slots, why would anyone want to put six bandwidth-hungry PCI cards onto one PCI bus? (No, a PCI-to-PCI bridge won't alleviate bandwidth.) You'll either have to go to a 66 MHz PCI bus, or go to a chipset that supports two or more independent PCI buses. The only Intel chipset that supports more than one PCI bus is 450NX, but that's for Xeon.
<The new 810 chipset goes 100Mhz on the PCI bus, and can handle upto 1GB of memory.>
Wrong. The 100 MHz clock is for the SDRAM. No PCI bus goes 100 MHz. And the 810 Whitney chipset only supports 512MB of memory, not 1GB. Go check out developer.intel.com if you want the details. There are only two Intel chipsets currently being manufactured that support more than 512MB of memory. They are 440GX and 450NX, but like I said before, they are meant for Xeon.
If Compaq is building a Celeron-based server with this many devices and this much memory, they sure wouldn't be using Intel chipsets. That's why I want to find out what chipset they're using.
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