PCI Express - Coming Soon to a PC Near You

Posted by michael on Thursday June 19, 2003 @12:23AM 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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According to the USB Consortium... by borgdows · 2003-06-19 00:34 · Score: 0, Redundant

PCI 1.x = PCI 'Full Speed'
PCI Express = PCI 'High Speed'
This just in! [-1, Redundant] by Daath · 2003-06-19 00:36 · Score: 0, Redundant

PCI Express will not replace PCI. PCI will be backwards compatible, and for the convenience of OEMs PCI will be renamed PCI Express, the faster PCI Express will be henceforth be known as PCI Express Hi-Speed, and the PCI PCI Express will be known as PCI Express Full-Speed.

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