I'm trying to find out the bandwidth of the 3 primary PC busses - ISA, PCI, and AGP. More importantly, I'm trying to learn WHY each bus has the bandwidth that it does. I am aware of the speeds (in MHZ) of the busses, but it obviously isn't nearly as simple as that.
I was presented with a logic problem: since the PCI bus runs at 33Mhz, very basic logic would dictate that the maximum bandwidth of the bus would be 33 Megabits/sec. Yet, one can run a 100 Mbit ethernet card on the PCI bus. How does this work?
Any help, in the form of direct replies or links to specific sources of information, would be greatly appreciated.
Paul
prhod626@wt.net
I was presented with a logic problem: since the PCI bus runs at 33Mhz, very basic logic would dictate that the maximum bandwidth of the bus would be 33 Megabits/sec. Yet, one can run a 100 Mbit ethernet card on the PCI bus. How does this work?
Any help, in the form of direct replies or links to specific sources of information, would be greatly appreciated.
Paul
prhod626@wt.net