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Wireless PCIe To Enable Remote Graphics Cards
J. Dzhugashvili writes "If you read Slashdot, odds are you already know about WiGig and the 7Gbps wireless networking it promises. The people at Atheros and Wilocity are now working on an interesting application for the spec: wireless PCI Express. In a nutshell, wPCIe enables a PCI Express switch with local and remote components linked by a 60GHz connection. The first applications, which will start sampling next year, will let you connect your laptop to a base station with all kinds of storage controllers, networking controllers, and yes, an external graphics processor. wPCIe works transparently to the operating system, which only sees additional devices connected over PCI Express. And as icing on the cake, wPCie controllers will let you connect to standard Wi-Fi networks, too."
" But for gaming? No way."
"I'll admit I'm not very wise on the technical details of PCIe,"
well, at least you didn't let your ignorance stop you from making up your mind.
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At least your arrogance is actually assisting you in being an asshole.
When I say technical details, I mean highly technical details above even most of the Slashdot crowd. I know bus speeds, versions, bandwidth and what the fuckin' connector looks like. And that combined knowledge is enough to tell me that 7Gbps isn't enough to effectively run a modern PCIe 2.0 graphics card on all 16 lanes at full blast. (which would take 8Gbps, and sometimes even that's not enough, hence PCIe 3.0 running at 16Gbps)
since I am still fuming from my flaimebait mod and your arrogance to assume I should have known everything you know, there is more.
pcie 2.0 actually data transfer is 5G plus 20% due to over head. A significant portion of the 3.0 speed increase comes from scramble. much less over head. So you could get more speed then the PCIe 2 in terms of real data using PCIe3 Overhead model. Meaning if it uses PCIe 3, you could probably get 6G prior to overhead; which is more the PCIe 2 in terms of usable data delivered. Granted, to get to pcie 3 speeds, they would need to do some channel magic.
But hey, since you can recognize the connector, I guess you know that... see, NOW i'm being an asshole.
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South Park sucks anyway...