Intel Says Farewell To PCI Bus

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @06:30AM from the ok-fine-I-get-it-my-computer-is-old dept.

KingofGnG writes with this snippet from Sir Arthur's Den, which will make my desktop computer sad: "Soon another technology that in past years dominated the always changing universe of computer hardware will bite the dust. That's the decision by Intel, the merciless executioner of standards that the company itself imposes on the market. In upcoming months it will end official support for the PCI bus. Developed by the chipmaker in 1993, the PCI Local Bus standard was implemented on all motherboards for x86 and compatible platforms until 2004, the year it passed the baton to the younger and faster PCI Express technology."

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Re:Now What? by toastar · 2010-06-23 06:42 · Score: 5, Interesting

Now what am I supposed to do with my Voodoo II video card?
A Better Question is how am I going to hook up my legacy scsi array?
Hell, you can still find new ISA motherboards... by BUL2294 · 2010-06-23 07:22 · Score: 5, Interesting

Out of curiosity, I was looking for motherboards that still support ISA, and apparently there's still a market...

This ATX board I found, supporting C2Duo/C2Quad processors, has ISA, 4x serial, parallel, FDD, PS/2 mouse & keyboard, etc., in addition to dual gigabit Ethernet, RAID, SATA, PCI-Express x16, PCI, HD audio, DDR2, etc.

http://www.adek.com/PDF/MB-P4BWA.pdf

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