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First Looks At PCI-X, BTX, New Chipsets, And More

Posted by timothy on from the first-blush-followed-by-unveiling-and-then-more dept.

rsrsharma writes "AnandTech has some early bird Computex 2004 coverage up its sleeve. Included are the first pictures and partial specs of nVidia's NV45, the PCI-X (PCI-eXpress) successor to the 6800 Ultra, and ATI's PCI-X cards. Also shown are Intel's new 9xx line of chipsets and LGA-755 motherboards, BTX form factor (the successor to ATX) motherboards, and much more. I'm definitely looking forward to this stuff." Update: 06/01 01:08 GMT by T : Several readers have pointed out that PCI-X properly stands for "PCI Extended" rather than "PCI Express."

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  1. My prediction on BTX and PCI-X by Orion+Blastar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Biggest flops since the PS/2 motherboard form factors and Microchannel. ;)

    Serial ATA? One channel? Please! People will want to run dual IDE controllers with IDE legacy drives.

    We need more than one expansion port, how else are we going to replace that built in Winmodem with something decent or stick a better network card in there than the crud that is bundled with the BTX board? Also where does the video capture card go?

    PCI-X biggest flop since Microchannel or EISA.

    Now I know what companies not to invest my money into, thanks! ;)

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