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PCI Express - Coming Soon to a PC Near You

Posted by michael on from the time-to-replace-all-your-cards-again dept.

Max Romantschuk writes "I've been following the emerging of PCI Express for some time now. PCI Express, previously known as "Third Generation I/O" or "3GIO", is the technology set to replace PCI. PCI has been with us for around ten years now, and is rapidly running out of bandwidth. Last week Anandtech ran an interresting story on PCI Express. The techology has previously been covered by Hexus and ExtremeTech aswell. I feel this technology looks all set to replace PCI, and we really do need some new bus technology to keep up with the bandwidth demands of today's applications. Or is this just yet another way to force us into a new upgrade cycle?"

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  1. Re:It will not just replace PCI by merlin_jim · · Score: 5, Funny

    Due to its high bandwidth, it's expected to replace AGP as well.

    This is not technically true, though I can see why you would be confused.

    They anticipate that customer demand for PCI-X will be so great that it will be difficult to sell AGP boards, therefore AGP will be renamed PCI-X. In order to distinguish between the two, the PCI-X spec will be designated "PCI-X High Speed" while the AGP spec will be designated "PCI-X Full Speed"

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  2. Re:It will not just replace PCI by Fulcrum+of+Evil · · Score: 5, Funny

    the PCI-X spec will be designated "PCI-X High Speed" while the AGP spec will be designated "PCI-X Full Speed"

    The really terrible thing here is that I can't tell if you're being serious or not.

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