PCI Express

Probably after they're introduced.

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PCI-Express (Codenamed 3GIO)
Highbandwidth, low pin count, serial I/O
2.5ghz via 2 diff. signaled half duplex lane pairs
80Gb/sec link performance at 2.5Gb/s signaling rates
250MB/s per direction pre channel
For: GbE, TV on PC, Firewire, Controller Cards

Video Graphics 16x PCI-Express 4.0 Gigabytes per second peak bandwidth per direction, 8GB/s concurrent bandwidth both ways, 2x that of existing AGP

Chipsets to support it in 2004:
Intel - 910, 915, 925X
VIA - PT890, K8T890 Northbridge, VT8251 Southbridge
SIS - 656, 656FX, [R659FX, R659TX - XDR], 755FX, 756
ATI - RS380, RS480
NVIDIA - Crush 3gio

Video Cards:
ATI - R420 130nm, R430 110nm, R500 90nm DirectX 10
NVIDIA - NV40 Sharders3.0 ExBridge, NV41 Native Ex, NV43
XGI - Volari cards [?able]

xbitlabs.com, anandtech.com, http://www.intel.com/technology/pc [...] esktop.htm

In my opinion this introduction will take some time. With both Intel and Via providing boards with high end and low end capabilities. I really dont see this gaining momentum until later in the year around Q4 after people have tested it and talked about it and start thinking about upgrading. But for the most part I think this will be more benefitial for those of us that require or want more speed, graphic quality, who use add in cards, etc. I guess the primary question is, are we over using what we already got, and do we need more? From an economic standpoint it makes sense, keep providing newer technology and sell it to the people who think they are benefitting from it even if they are not. Or change the old system to make them switch. The year 2000 conspiracy, meets 2005.

Tom needs to catch up and get on this to stay competitive!

Thanks for the info about PCI express. I'm personally all about faster even if we don't need it. One day the software will catch up and possibly surpass it. Look at Half Life 2 as an example. If they had released it on their first schedule, only the best computers could get even close to 60fps. Now that it's been a few months, with still to go before they release it, I'm sure the computers will be able to handle it better.

Maybe Tom needs to get a section technology of the future and add to it things like this an all the new super fast parallel atom cpus or light cpus.