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Mixing Gigabit, Copper, and Linux

Posted by timothy on from the way-faster-than-my-56K-dialup dept.

iampgray writes: "With copper-based gigabit cards selling for less than $36 these days, what kind of performance can you expect -- especially in the often-overlooked Linux market? We sought out to test exactly what you could expect from copper-based gigabit solutoins for the desktop interface through the cluster-targeted products. Name brands and off-brands were put through the wringer. How'd they fare? Interesting results to say the least."

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  1. Re:I have the way out by jeremy111 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or:

    1. Buy a Macintosh.
    2. Turn it on.
    3. Play till your harts content. (Oh and about twice as fast as your quality XP system.)

    Its not the MHz its the GigaFlops that count!