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None of the current ones use 150 over the PCIe bus, the PCIe-150W psec doesn't see the light of day in consumer products, that was another proposed spec that never got implemented, right now it's still 75W over the PCIe.

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Ara

We're not coming close to maxing our current PCI-E bandwith, no need to expand, but still nice to see stuff being done.

The ability to connect through a wire though is real interesting, but pointless for most consumers.

nice to see no one is resting on their laurels but again like doughboy says, consumers ain't going to have much use of it. still for networking i suppose it could have its uses. i suppose how much it costs compared to current tech will play a part in it.

I know, just pointing that out, not refuting the source.
BTW, we've discussed this a few times before, nice to see them getting further in the spec.

The thing though is if they are going to move to something I'd prefer they move to 300W right away and skip 150W implementation, considering our G80/R600 discussions that makes more sense to me.

That part I'm trying to decide if I like. Yes, it would be nice to have power sent through the mobo thus bypassing a PCI-E connecter, but why are we encourgaing graphics companies to anally rape us with their huge wattage GPU's... sigh.

Oh well, I'll mark this on my list of "things that are nice but not really important." My list of "kickass things worth waiting for" still has DX10, 45nm chips, native quad-cores, and DDR3...

It would be nice to get rid of the extra power connector on my x850xt. The less cable clutter the better. Expecially one that lands right in the middle of my mobo.

While I don't like the trend towards crazy power consumption that video cards have shown, I don't think that it will last forever. With the AMD/ATI merger, perhaps AMD's influence will reduce the power consumption of the ATI cards.

Nothing we can do about it. If we wanted them to slow the pace of production they could optimize re-spin and likely give us 10-30% reduction in power, but we want fastest NOW, and if people are concerned about power consumption then buy a GF7600GT which consumes less power than a GF6600GT, but truely to have the best NOW, it cost energy. It seems to be the tradeoff people want. 5% throughput increase from moving fro 10Kto15K HDDs isn't usually worth the heat and noicse except to Wusy, but getting to 30% performance increase with another 20-40W power consumption seems to be something everyone is willing to give. They're just following our wants/needs really.

naaa, i think the day we see external devices which use PCIe is a good day... i mean think about it, you can have proper external sound cards, graphics cards (laptops...) and other cool stuff that are only available internally

Ara

That's all I need: a computer that looks like my entertainment center. Wires connecting peripherals everywhere.

lol... they could make it optional... easily with a standard external enclosure, if you don't want it, then you can take it out of the enclosure and make it internal...?

just a thought,
Ara

does it mean we need a new motherboard, graphic card, and psu? *ouch* that's gonna hurt..

DING DING DING!!!! You are correct sir! New upgrades are just around the corner! 8)

External video cards would be awesome for laptops. You could have improved graphics for your laptop at home and just leave the enclosure when you go to work.

Of course this wouldn't be that useful for desktops. I guess you could always borrow someones graphics enclosure if you couldn't run a new game. They could even rent out the enclosures at game rental stores.