[DanTheBanjoman]

Originally Posted by The_Gunslinger

are you referring to the PCI bus there, or the PCIe bus ?

at the moment, all that is there is the Audigy2 zs card, not sure where all the USB 2.0 headers come into the equation though.

also in your reference to efficient, was that referring to the CPU utilisation ?

there is not many reviews around for these cards that i can find, the cpu an throughput figures are listed in most mainboard reviews though, and can be quite useful

thanks for the speedy reply btw
always amazed how fast threads get a reply here

No I was referring to using the full Gbit bandwidth. It's unlikely that you'll be using even 50% of it. Therefor the PCI bus doesn't really bottleneck.