PCI Express 3.0 Delayed Till 2011

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PCI Express 3.0 Delayed Till 2011

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 20, 2009 @05:49AM from the dreamliner-of-connections dept.

Professor_Quail writes "PC Magazine reports that the PCI SIG has officially delayed the release of the PCI Express 3.0 specification until the second quarter of 2010. Originally, the PCI Express 3.0 specification called for the spec itself to be released this year, with products due about a year after the spec's release, or in 2010."

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Delayed the release? by jhfry · 2009-08-20 05:51 · Score: 4, Funny

So the spec is complete, but were not gonna tell you what it says!
Doesn't make sense!

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1. Re:Delayed the release? by impaledsunset · 2009-08-20 05:57 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  They are just giving time to Amazon's EC2/S3 to get compliant.
2. Re:Delayed the release? by eldavojohn · 2009-08-20 05:59 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  So the spec is complete, but were not gonna tell you what it says!
  Doesn't make sense!
  The article says they're working on getting it to be backward compliant with the current PCIe specs. You probably don't want to start building to the spec until that's in place anyway. You can find a lot of information on PCIe 3.0 on the FAQ on their site. If you're a member of PCI SIG, you might even be able to get the preliminary spec, who knows?
  
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whats in 3.0? by convolvatron · 2009-08-20 05:59 · Score: 4, Interesting

the pci sig blurb says its mostyl cleanup and the removal of 5v support
does anyone know of anything interesting in 3.0?
1. Re:whats in 3.0? by symbolset · 2009-08-20 06:09 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  Twice as fast again. x16 is 32GB/s. They're looking to support 3 graphics cards per PC, which is cool if you're into that whole supercomputer on your desk thing, but it's going to burn at least a kilowatt.
  I'm sad we haven't seen external PCIe implemented. It was in the v2 specification. The idea of an external interconnect with that much bandwidth probably made some heavy players nervous.
  
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Re:Whatever by Old97 · 2009-08-20 06:03 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah, and I've got 640k of ram. All I'll ever need.

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strange self-reference by Black+Parrot · 2009-08-20 06:08 · Score: 4, Funny

the PCI Express 3.0 specification called for the spec itself to be released this year
Now we know how time loops are accidentally created.

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Re:Good Cause Creative still cant handle PCIe now! by Manip · 2009-08-20 07:12 · Score: 4, Informative

Creative purchased their drivers off of a third party company and then just updated them over the years. This literally happened since the soundriver products began. Once Vista came out with an entirely new sound infrastructure nobody at Creative had the expertise to write a decent driver so they cobbled one together (with Microsoft's help) from their old horrible drivers.
Fact is - Creative soundscards aren't worth while because the drivers are so poor. Even if the sound hardware could potentially take load off of the CPU, you're more likely to spend endless hours messing with it and even if it does work it won't work as effectively as one might hope.