Magma PCIe Expansion System EB2R - Manual (Page 44)

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Note that the maximum number of tracks is achieved with all PCIe cards
inserted directly into the PC. Using the EB2 expansion chassis we note
the difference in track counts is no larger than 20% compared to a
scenario where all cards reside in the PC, taking up all available slots.
Video Card expansion solutions
Magma’s EB2 chassis can be used to add a high end PCI express video
card to a PC system or laptop that were not equipped with such a
device for various reasons: cost , physical space, heat dissipation etc.
A question then arises as to how good
of a performance we can get by
utilizing the expanded PCIe bus and
high end video card . In order to obtain
a definitive answer we turn to
Futuremark’s 3DMark® benchmarking
software. Since its introduction at the
turn of the millennium, 3DMark® has
become the de-facto standard in Video
card performance testing and
evaluation.
The 3DMark® suite is optimized to
work under Windows Vista and
supports the latest DirectX and
derivative 3D multimedia technologies.
In this environment, a low-profile Dell
PowerEdge server (with a built-in ATI
ES1000 video chipset) was tested with
various external PCIe video cards.