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J. Clarke wrote:
> SHRED wrote:
>
>
>>Okay I have been out of touch for a while with the latest video tech
>>stuff. PCIx16 slot?
>>I left off at the AGPx8 slot stage.
>>Would someone please explain(breifly) the latest slot technology
>>advantage and provide some good links so I can study more?
>
>
> Google "PCI Express" and you'll find a lot of information. Basically Intel's
> churning the market with a new slot whose only purpose is to sell
> hardware--it doesn't do anything that older designs didn't do but Intel's
> incorporated it in all their new chipsets and removed AGP and so the market
> is kind of forced to follow along. Unless their plan backfires on them,
> which I'm kind of hoping it will.
>
> They're calling it "PCI Express" (there is also an older high performance
> design called "PCI-X" that is used in servers and workstations--I'm sure
> that "PCI Express" was chosen as a name so that it could easily be confused
> with "PCI-X") but it is not PCI in anything but name--PCI Express boards
> will not fit PCI slots and PCI boards will not fit PCI Express slots and
> the signalling is completely different. The major benefit over AGP is that
> there can be multiple PCI Express slots in a machine, the major benefit
> over regular PCI is that it's anywhere from faster (PCI Express X1) to much
> much faster (PCI Express X16). In principle you can mix and match PCI
> Express devices--put a PCI Express X1 device in an X16 slot for
> example--and they'll work reliably at the lowest speed supported by both
> the device and the slot, but I'll believe that when it has a track record.
> Supposedly it's cheaper to implement than PCI-X, however I notice reading
> the technical docs that Intel uses PCI-X internally in their PCI Express
> chipsets, which kind of makes one wonder whether that is really so--in any
> case the cost of motherboards at the low end these days is driven by the
> labor to solder the parts on and put them in a box, so I doubt that there
> are any real savings to be had there.
>
> If you buy a new motherboard with a PCI Express slot, you _have_ to get a
> new video board. If you want to use a new video board that only comes in
> PCI Express (Intel was hoping this would happen--so far it hasn't) then you
> _have_ to get a new motherboard, so its real benefit is that it helps sell
> hardware. Also, since Intel kind of sprung it on everybody the AMD
> chipmakers are playing catch up, which Intel hopes will sell more hardware
> for them.
Awesome.
Thanks.
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