[jamesclarke555]

http://www.spodesabode.com/content/article/pciexpress/1

Recently, Boston sent us a rather powerful Dual 3.4GHz Xeon (Nocona) workstation on the new Tumwater chipset, with DDR-II, PCI Express and U320 SCSI. The Nocona core is basically a Prescott core with a 64-Bit Extended Memory bolt on. Considering we are running in 32-Bit and these Xeons don't have any Level 3 cache, this can be considered to be a dual Pentium 4 Prescott system hopefully offering a bit more power than our 3200+ Athlon 64. The 2GB of DDR-II memory should hopefully reduce the bottleneck of our previous DDR system and we can also reduce the AGP bottleneck by running on PCI Express. Under this system, I think we might get a better idea of what these cards are capable of.