Looking at PCIe cards for MP 4,1 and 5,1. I want a fast SATA card with at least one eSATA and one internal port. CMP 2010 has PCIe 2.0 with "mechanical support for 16 lane cards." There are three open slots. one PCIe 2.0 X 16 and two PCIe 2.0 X 4. I assume one of the PCIe 2.0 X 16 slots is the GPU card, simply because that's a throughput intensive function and vaguely guess that 16 means about 4 times the throughput of 4. Can anyone explain in simple terms (or point me to a resource for...
PCIe 2.0 lanes and card channels - fast card specs
PCIe 2.0 lanes and card channels - fast card specs