6800 PCI cards

[Synge1]

Anyone know when these cards should be available?

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Likely never, however PCIe should arrive shortly.


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[Vapor]

Likely never

Minus the "likely." I have yet to see a 9800 or 5900 series on PCI...and they aren't coming out with one anytime soon (too high of a price for freakishly low performance).

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[cleeve]

Hopefully, widespread PCIe will mark the end of the days of Compaqs and Dells that don't have any real possibility of video card upgrades because they don't have an AGP slot.

Then again, the PCIe graphics post is supposedly different from the generic PCIe ports... I wonder, will they make generic PCIe slot graphics cards? Or will all PCIe mobos have the graphics-specific PCIe slot?

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[TheGreatGrapeApe]

It's not really graphics specific persay so much as bandwidth specific. 1X is one siz, 4X bigger, 8x bigger still, and so far the 16x (used for graphics exclusively right now) is the longest. Not sure if it's specifically Graphics though. If they have a bunch of 4X or 8X slots and they make some graphics cards based on it, likely you could achieve a multiple card array with 3+ cards IMO.


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[blackphoenix77]

Dude, it's really time you upgrade.

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