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Krogoth |
AGP 3.0 again. Let me guess, it will be on video cards for a long time before being on other peripheral devices. >_<
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Usacomp2k3 |
We don't even really need pci-e 2.0.
That said, if they made a motherboard that just had like 6 4x 2.0, that'd probably be enough for most video cards and the 1x audio cards and such would fit in there as well. |
#5, I second that. Adi
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aleckermit |
WTF, I don't even have PCI-E 2.0 yet.
Slow down technology! |
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Mystic-G |
Stupid Question Ahead... rear to the left.
Are pci-e 2.0 slots backwards compatible? |
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Majiir Paktu |
Why are they ditching 8b/10b encoding? My understanding is that it was implemented in the first place because of PCI-E's high transfer rates at 2.5GT/s; now at 8GT/s they're going to ditch it?
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UberGerbil |
The total number of lanes in a chipset has a practical upper limit due to the complexity and performance requirements of a switched point-to-point topology, and motherboards have an economic upper limit based on the number of layers required for laying out the traces -- and it appears we're pretty much bumping into those already. If the future really involves two or three cards with parallel fp processors (for graphics, physics, photoshop, or whatever) the cheapest way to do that is with fewer, faster lanes. I'm not sure that's really where we're headed, but it certainly would be cheaper and easier for everybody if x4 boards had all the bandwidth anybody needed, so motherboards and peripherals alike could get by with smaller slots and fewer traces. (Of course high frequencies have their own set of challenges.)
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Spotpuff |
I'm still trying to figure out why motherboards still come with PCI slots :( I know backwards compatibility is the big driver, but can't we just like, move forward a bit faster?
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