Who benefits from CSA on Canterwood?

[IvIaNTiS]

I'm planning on building a new system soon. I want to know who benefits from CSA. If I don't benefit from it then I will probably get a cheaper 875 board or a 865 board. I have DSL at home and my school uses OC3.

 

[Budman]

people who need gigabit lan will need it.

 

[Rand]

Those who transfer a significant amount of data via the NIC.

Personally it means nothing to me... I peak at maybe 8MB/s on my home LAN, and my 2500mbps internet connection obviously isnt going to use up much bandwidth at all.
Just over 8MB extra traffic on the PCI bus isnt nearly enough for me to give a damn about CSA.

Now were I to use Gigabit LAN to it's maximum abilities.... that's 125MB/s downstream and upstream, 250MB/s total which is by itself well over the peak of 32bit/33MHz PCI bus. Definitely wouldnt leave much bandwidth for other devices.

If all your using the NIC for is your internet connection, or a basic home LAN without huge bandwidth needs then CSA probably isnt going to yield you much benefit.

 

[techfuzz]

Originally posted by: IvIaNTiS
I'm planning on building a new system soon. I want to know who benefits from CSA. If I don't benefit from it then I will probably get a cheaper 875 board or a 865 board. I have DSL at home and my school uses OC3.

Your school may have an OC3, but at most you're going to get 100mbit at any network jack on campus. It's more likely you're only going to get 10mbit especially if your school hasn't replaced its switches in a couple of years.

techfuzz

 

[Double Trouble]

In my case, CSA will make a difference. I have a few PC's around the home, with one central server that holds all the CD images and such. I tranfer very large files to and from the server all the time. I was planning to upgrade everything to gigabit ethernet anyway, and now the MSI board looks even better

 

[react]

Good to know I don't need and saved 50 bucks

 

[mooojojojo]

what's CSA?

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: mooojojojo
what's CSA?

CSA: ooh look, a new Bus

 

[astroview]

Although the 975 has the PAT which improves performance, might want to keep that in mind.

 

[aggie113]

tagej I seriously doubt you will benifit from csa. unless you have gigabit ethernet switches and cat 5e wiring throughout the house you can't even use the gigabit feature of it. also, unless your pci bus is filled with other cards that use high amounts of the 133Mbps bandwidth you shouldn't notice any slowdown from a regular intergrated NIC. CSA will only benifit servers and maybe some CAD freaks who love to play with multiple GB file sizes over networks. for home users I can't see the justification in spending the money for the new mobo when the only major dif is CSA.

 

[jaeger66]

Originally posted by: aggie113
tagej I seriously doubt you will benifit from csa. unless you have gigabit ethernet switches and cat 5e wiring throughout the house you can't even use the gigabit feature of it. also, unless your pci bus is filled with other cards that use high amounts of the 133Mbps bandwidth you shouldn't notice any slowdown from a regular intergrated NIC. CSA will only benifit servers and maybe some CAD freaks who love to play with multiple GB file sizes over networks. for home users I can't see the justification in spending the money for the new mobo when the only major dif is CSA.

I have a use for CSA and GigE in my home. And Gigabit switches are cheap these days.