Aquinus
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System Name | Apollo |
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Processor | Intel Core i9 9880H |
Motherboard | Some proprietary Apple thing. |
Memory | 64GB DDR4-2667 |
Video Card(s) | AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, 8GB HBM2 |
Storage | 1TB Apple NVMe, 4TB External |
Display(s) | Laptop @ 3072x1920 + 2x LG 5k Ultrafine TB3 displays |
Case | MacBook Pro (16", 2019) |
Audio Device(s) | AirPods Pro, Sennheiser HD 380s w/ FIIO Alpen 2, or Logitech 2.1 Speakers |
Power Supply | 96w Power Adapter |
Mouse | Logitech MX Master 3 |
Keyboard | Logitech G915, GL Clicky |
Software | MacOS 12.1 |
I do have a spare PCI slot but would the NIC be bottlenecked by the PCI bus?
Gigabit PCI cards I've used tend to top out at about 40MB/s as opposed to gigabit's theoretical maximum of 140MB/s. If the NIC is for the outside, then it should be fine as it's very unlikely that you will exceed 300-400Mbps for the internet. PCI has the potential bandwidth to satisfy more than this so I wouldn't worry about it.