# [OmniOS-discuss] the right card for a server

Saso Kiselkov skiselkov.ml at gmail.com
Thu Jan 9 23:55:13 UTC 2014

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    On 1/9/14, 11:26 PM, Michael Mounteney wrote:
    > Thanks for your comments Dan.
    >
    > The board I found is a PCI Express x8 whereas the I350 is x4.  What does
    > that mean, and does it matter at all ?  The server has an x8 slot.

    As both cards use PCI-Express 2.0, four lanes are able to deliver up to
    4x 4Gbit/s full duplex. Given that the card is a 4x 1Gbit/s Ethernet
    part, I wouldn't worry about it.

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    Saso

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