Goodbye PCI

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sanitarium16

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Finally decided to upgrade my Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer PCI to the new Sound Blaster Z PCIe. This marks the end of the PCI bus for me. Damn i feel old.
 
I feel old when I mention ISA slots and things like Zmodem to the gamers at work.

Congrats on leaving behind PCI.
 
I remember "upgrading" from X and Y modem protocols to Z modem. I thought that was so cool.
 
PCI has had a REALLY good run. Introduced in the late 486/early pentium era and still supported by many boards today. Lets hope PCIe has an equally long life.
 
I skipped VLB myself (other than messing arround with some obsolete and only half-working hardware years later), our 486 only has ISA and our next machine (we didn't buy them very often back then) was a P2 with ISA/PCI IIRC but I did hear that VLB was a PITA.
 
Goodbye to VLB? Phffft! I still have my Trident 1 meg SVGA card, Why? I dunno....
 
Going from IDE to Sata was my jump for joy. You mean computers didn't need to have MASSIVE bands in them? Woo!
 
10 years ago I was using a PCI video card for games like Morrowind. I skipped AGP completely and went straight to PCIe. Damn I hate the limited options to upgrade those days. I am not sad to see it go.
 
I remember when I went from ISA to VESA local bus...

PCs really where crap back then. We must have been at the 500 to 400nm mark.
 
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Jay_oasis said:
I remember when I went from ISA to VESA local bus...

PCs really where crap back then. We must have been at the 500 to 400nm mark.
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Must be back in the 486 days, manufacturing processes broke the 1 um barrier back then.

You could get 5 Volt processors back then.
 
runs2far said:
Must be back in the 486 days, manufacturing processes broke the 1 um barrier back then.

You could get 5 Volt processors back then.
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That was in a 386 SX 40, I think the CPU was 1um I think it was 4.5 to 5v

Some of the 386DX CPUs where 5.5V
 
1) Turbo button, 8Mhz to 16 Mhz!
2) The overdrive chip that you stuck on the board and your proc on top.
3) A seperate L3 cache chip that went in a motherboard slot next to the CPU.
4) Physical Jumpers for your CPU. Voltage, Step, and Mhz setting!
5) Monster Add on cards! you needed a video card and two addons to play doom and be super cool!

I have all of this junk im my garage. Fun to use as garage wall paper.

Less newer:
Voodoo video cards with an external power adapter that plugged into the wall.
Ziff to Slot A cpu package.
1X CD burners, SCSI only and no buffers. Lots of coasters.
Network coax that required T connectors and terminators...
 
nicholasfarmer said:
1) Turbo button, 8Mhz to 16 Mhz!
2) The overdrive chip that you stuck on the board and your proc on top.
3) A seperate L3 cache chip that went in a motherboard slot next to the CPU.
4) Physical Jumpers for your CPU. Voltage, Step, and Mhz setting!
5) Monster Add on cards! you needed a video card and two addons to play doom and be super cool!

I have all of this junk im my garage. Fun to use as garage wall paper.

Less newer:
Voodoo video cards with an external power adapter that plugged into the wall.
Ziff to Slot A cpu package.
1X CD burners, SCSI only and no buffers. Lots of coasters.
Network coax that required T connectors and terminators...
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I thought I was the shits when I got an omgwtfbbq numeric processor on my motherboard.

Ps- Turbo Button was the coolest thing back in the day.
 
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