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SK0-003 · Question #272

Which of the following expansion slots would be BEST for a fiber network card?

The correct answer is C. PCIe. PCIe (PCI Express) offers the highest bandwidth and lowest latency among the listed expansion slots, making it the best choice for high-performance fiber network cards in modern servers.

Server hardware installation and management

Question

Which of the following expansion slots would be BEST for a fiber network card?

Options

  • AISA
  • BPCIx
  • CPCIe
  • DAGP

How the community answered

(47 responses)
  • A
    2% (1)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    89% (42)
  • D
    6% (3)

Why each option

PCIe (PCI Express) offers the highest bandwidth and lowest latency among the listed expansion slots, making it the best choice for high-performance fiber network cards in modern servers.

AISA

ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) is a very old, slow 16-bit parallel bus that lacks the bandwidth required for any modern network card, let alone a fiber one.

BPCIx

PCI-X (PCI Extended) is an older parallel bus that offers better performance than PCI but is still significantly slower than PCIe and has largely been replaced by it in modern server designs.

CPCIeCorrect

PCIe (PCI Express) is a high-speed serial expansion bus that offers significantly higher bandwidth and lower latency compared to its predecessors like PCI and PCI-X. Modern high-performance fiber network cards, especially 10GbE and faster, require the throughput provided by PCIe lanes to achieve their full potential, making it the optimal choice for server expansion.

DAGP

AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is a specialized slot designed exclusively for graphics cards and is not suitable for network adapters.

Concept tested: Expansion slot types and performance

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/performance-tuning/hardware/bus-technologies-comparison

Topics

#PCIe#expansion slots#fiber network card#server hardware

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