Not to mention any box which still bothers with PCI-X will likely be too old to route a lot of gigabit ethernet traffic, anyway. All high-performance GBE NICs are PCIe v2.0 anyway, and you'll want a v2.0 x4 slot for dual-port GBE. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh