Gigabit Ethernet: On-Board Chips Reviewed

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Processor
Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4 Northwood, 3.2 GHz, 512 kB Cache, FSB800
Socket 604 Dual Intel Pentium 4 Xeon, 2.8 GHz, 512 kB Cache, FSB533
System Memory
DDR-SDRAM 2x 512 MB PC3700OCZ Gold Edition Rev. 2 (2.5-3-3-7)
Network/Motherboard
3COM / Marvell 940 Asus P4C800, Rev. 1.03Intel 875P chipset & ICH5-R
Broadcom BCM5705 Epox EP-4PCA3+, Rev. 1.0Intel 875P chipset & ICH5-R
Intel 82547EI (CSA) DFI LanParty PRO875, Rev. AIntel 875P chipset & ICH5-R
3COM 3C996B-TBroadcom BCM5701 Asus PP-DLW, Rev. 1.03Intel E7505 chipset
Realtek RTL8100S Gigabyte GA-8S655TX Ultra, Rev. 1.0SiS655TX & SiS964
Other Hardware
Graphics card nVIDIA GeForce FX 5900, 128 MB
Controller Client systems: ICH5-R or SiS964 for RAID 0Host system: Raidcore RC4000 für RAID 0
Hard drives (client systems) System drive: Western Digital WD800JBTest drive: RAID-0 array consisting of2x Hitachi Deskstar 7K250, HDS722580VLSA80, 80 GB,7,200 rpm, 8 MB Cache
Hard drives (server system) System drive: Western Digital WD1000BBTest drive: RAID-0 array consisting of4x Western Digital WD360 Raptor, 36 GB,10,000 rpm, 8 MB Cache
Software
Intel Chipset Intel Chipset Installation Utility 5.1.1.1002Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition Ver. 3.53
Network drivers 3COM / Marvel 940Broadcom BCM5705 & BCM5701: Ver. 6.34.0.0Intel Pro/1000 CT&MT (82547EI & 82541GI): Ver. 7.3.13.0Realtek: Ver. 5.611.1231.2003
DirectX 9.0b
OS Windows XP Professional Build 2600 Service Pack 1
Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.