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.).