Hi,

A little of topic, but perhaps somebody could still take a look?
I have always been under the impression the for example an onboard
scsi controller was always better the a scsi controller pci card which is
inserted in a pci slot because in the latter case you are limited to the
speed (bandwidth) of a pci bus. However, some ppl to stop dreaming because
most
onboard stuff (ie ide controller and onboard lan controller (if its
onboard anyway)) is connected by the pcibus anyway, so it doesnt really
matter whether you got onboard stuff or not concerning the speed.
Is this still true that most of the onboard stuff (ide controller, scsi
controller, lan controller, audio (if onboard)) if connected to the pci
bus anyway?

Secondly, if so, then better make sure that you got a mainboard with a
nice pci bus (66mhz, 64 bits) anyone knows faster pci busses on
mainboards?
Or an smp machine with a pci bus for each processor would be even more
convenient then? Any suggestions towards this and perhaps some hints for
reading on this?
Bye,

Mipam.