Hi, I'm looking at getting a new workstation with an Asus P5K motherboard. There appears to be a single COM port header on the motherboard, but no rear bracket to connect to it. In the event I have to add ports on a card (to support various embedded programming stuff,
I'd like at least two working serial ports, so the same computer can talk to a target system as well as one tool) should I get a PCI card or one of the newer (and generally quite expensive) PCI-X cards? Since it won't get used that much on average, I'd be unhappy if it slowed down the system. I'll be using WinXP Pro, if that matters.
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany