onearmedscissor
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does anyone know when pci express motherboards will be available to buy separately? i see that only alienware has them right now. thanks.
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when is pci express coming out?
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BillLeeLee
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PCI-Express is very new, and seeing as how there is a spectacular shortage of PCI-Express devices, I wouldn't be buying anything in this first generation. Wait a while before PCI-Express becomes widespread.
PCI-Express is very new, and seeing as how there is a spectacular shortage of PCI-Express devices, I wouldn't be buying anything in this first generation. Wait a while before PCI-Express becomes widespread.
I agree. There isn't a performance difference anyway.BillLeeLee said:1 month ago...
PCI-Express is very new, and seeing as how there is a spectacular shortage of PCI-Express devices, I wouldn't be buying anything in this first generation. Wait a while before PCI-Express becomes widespread.
NO reason whatsoever to buy PCI-E IMO.
BillLeeLee
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PCI Express is the answer to a world of increasingly bandwidth hungry PCI devices. The PCI bus on systems today is only 33 Mhz, and maximum transfer on the entire PCI bus is only 133 MB/s. This lack of bandwidth is what prompted the need for AGP ports for graphics cards years back.
PCI Express is a serial device interface, and (I believe) each device gets its own independent bandwidth lane, and the basic specification is 250 MB/s one way. This can be scaled by adding more data transfer lanes - PCI Express video cards are x16, which theoretically means 8 GB/s (4 GB/s one way).
PCI Express is a serial device interface, and (I believe) each device gets its own independent bandwidth lane, and the basic specification is 250 MB/s one way. This can be scaled by adding more data transfer lanes - PCI Express video cards are x16, which theoretically means 8 GB/s (4 GB/s one way).
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pci express are almost twice as fast at anything they do that mostly reoson to buy them