PCI 3.0 Coming; Intel gets the Green Light.

pjbass writes "This story on ZDnet discusses the next I/O subsystem planned for PC's. It will be PCI 3.0 once making it to the consumers, but it is now known as Arapahoe, or 3GIO. Intel Corp. is responsible for making the technology, and boast its performance will be about 6 times that of PCI2.x, getting up to speeds of 6.6 gigabytes per second of bandwidth initially, with promises to scale more once the technology is mainstream."

Comments

Please give it a better name than PCI 3.0!

[Dr_Cheeks]

I already have to explain to family and friends why a Pentium 75 is worse than a Pentium 4 far more regularly than I'd like to. I can just picture the pathetic puppy-dog looks on their faces when I tell them that their 5-year-old box won't take their new PCI 3 piece of kit ("See this number 3 here..."). And then they try to guilt trip me into taking it back and asking for a refund too....

Call it "New PCI" or "Super-Duper PCI" or "Extra Whizzy PCI (not compatible with any computers made before 2001)". Please!

And don't even get me started on the trouble I've had explaining why people's "innovative" cheap storage solutions are flawed (Zip disks don't work in regular floppy drives, you can't overwrite normal music CDs now matter how good your burner is etc.).

Re:Please give it a better name than PCI 3.0!

[Anonymous Coward]

> why a Pentium 75 is worse than a Pentium 4 far more regularly than I'd like to.

Quite understandable. After all, 4 is a much lower number than 75, so why shouldn't the Pentium 4 be much worse than the 75?

Re:Please give it a better name than PCI 3.0!

[oingoboingo]

Do you mean something like Clippy for PCI? It looks like you're installing a new PCI card! Would you like me to:

• Crawl around under the desk with a screwdriver and a flashlight, with your butt sticking out and your ass-crack showing while the cute company secretary walks by?
• Spend 30 minutes swapping around all your other PCI cards to get it to work with your wierdo Abit BP-6 board?
• Fuck off and just keep jamming the damn thing in until the motherboard cracks?

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Re:Please give it a better name than PCI 3.0!

[geomcbay]

They should call it the bizzigity bizz-us

Re:Those were the days..

[Black Parrot]

> I remember when I was a kid, seeing some article on Usenet circa 1990 about how it was impossible for any computer to do 30 FPS in 24-bit

If you drop it from high enough, any computer will do 30 fps before it hits the ground, without regard to its bitness.

Lawyers?!

[agdv]

The nine committee members [...] had voted July 27 to take another week for company lawyers to review the standard.

WTF? Since when are lawyers qualified to decide on technology issues? I'd understand if they were to review the legalities of the standard (patents and all that crap), but the standard itself?

Next time I need to design a computer bus I'll ask my mother (a law professor). But first I'll teach her how to use scrollbars...

Re:Interesting to note that AMD voted for it as we

[Black Parrot]

> Reading it closely makes me feel as if AMD is trying to curry favor with Intel for some odd reason while at the same time promoting their own technology.... They do overlap in a few areas, but I am curious if their support for the new PCI 3.0 standard will make it harder for them to sell HT as they will have to work to differentiate it.

Maybe they're hoping to saddle Intel with a standard that can't compete with their own proprietary solution?

Yeah!

[quigonn]

Together with IA-64, this will finally make the PC platform a "good" computer. ;)