[ntp:questions] Meinberg is raffling off PCI Express clocks for participation in the NTP Pool

Rob nomail at example.com
Fri Jul 13 09:06:06 UTC 2012


DaveB <g8kbv at uko2.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <slrnjvvn3u.l3l.nomail at xs8.xs4all.nl>, nomail at example.com 
> says...
>> 
>> DaveB <g8kbv at uko2.co.uk> wrote:
>> > In article <11kih2bsdn96l.1sgf7xcdw4aak.dlg at 40tude.net>, m-
>> > a.alpers at web.de says...
>> >> 
>> >> Hello!
>> >> 
>> >> Is that known?
>> >> http://www.meinberg.de/english/info/pc-clocks-for-ntp-pool.htm
>> >
>> > Hmmmm....
>> >
>> > PCI Express cards.  
>> >
>> > Not much use for many then.
>> >
>> > Dave B.
>> 
>> Why not?
>
> Only ever seen one desktop with such a slot.  A Dell a couple of years 
> ago, that had (we suspect) tin whisker issues.  Went for scrap in the 
> end, less than 6 months old.
>
> Even the few Win7 desktop's at work, have straight PCI slots, not the 
> express types, the rest are all laptops.

Well, you must have some pretty old or at least oldfashioned systems.

When I bought my current system in 2007 it was already hard to get
a modern MB that still had old PCI slots on it, and it has several
PCI Express slots.



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