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Such thing gonna be produced in the nearby future to eventually replace PCI-E? Just wondering, by that time I would wonder how good graphics would be then compared to now.
 
not even everybody is adopting PCI-E technology yet, it will be a while off i think before a new standard is introduced...
 
ummmm do you not remember how long AGP itself lasted......

PCI-E is a standard to replace all expansion slots. It's more likely that we see a PCI-e v2.0 with higher speed signaling than we are to see another interface created.

But I don't expect that for 6-8years, if that early.
 
Its the normal cycle of technology..

big floppy to 3.5 to cd-rom to dvd to....
pci to agp to pci express to........
nes to snes to n64 to gamecube to rev...


get used to it.
 
I think PCI-E will stick around for a long time for a couple of reasons. One is that some of the way vista will handle video cards works well with the way PCIe is designed. Another is that I think it might be easily upped to 32x from 16x without an entire change in structure.
 
PCI-express is a serial bus while PCI and AGP are a parallel bus. You could probably just add more lanes and create a 32x PCIe slot, etc as needed and it would probably retain backwards compatibility.

The whe AGP-E gimmic on those boards doesn't really sound like what the OP was talking about.
 
lloose said:
pci to agp to pci express to........
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Wasnt VESA a graphics card slot also?

Like above posters said, its all new interfaces and not just for graphics. Once PCI is faded out, the x1 and x4 slots will be the new ones. There is also a x8 slot to, but we probably wont see that on boards for a long time. We do see the speeds, but I mean there is also a physical x8 slot. At least there was when PCI Express was announced. I give it at least 15 years before a new standard comes into play. Im sure the x16 will be upped to x32 in 5 or 2 years because of SLI and Crossfire but nothing major. But then again this is technology so anything can and most likely will happen.
 
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