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About LinkBacksbut not 2x into 4x.Originally Posted by Xcelsion
but not 2x into 4x.
Well as soon as the "lastest" graphics cards are released on the market the "next generation" are nearly always already on the way to being taped out and ready for testing so I don't see the real difference between PCI-E specifications and the way graphics manufacturers operate. What would you rather have, a good market with technology jumping leaps and bounds every 2-3 years or a stagnent pond of hardware which stays the same.
Its all swings and roundabouts, If they was not progressing then I'm sure folks would be shouting from the rooftops. By 2007 we'll all have new motherboards anyway running dual cored processors with DDR-3 memory and whatever cards Nvidia and ATi release to the market. Then next phase of PCI-E hopefully will be faster so the cards can gain access to the data faster and provide the next generation of "r0x0r" graphics for DirectX 10 or whatever the API protocols would be called in Longhorn.
SATA2 was penciled in before any of us owned SATA drives.
It's the way things go these days. SATA2 is backwards compatible, luckily. Dunno about future verisons of PCIe.
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Hopefully it will be.
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When I said 'only', I was stressing how near the release date is, and how thats a bad thing.
Talking of the Audigy 4, I have yet to see it sold commercially in the UK, and I've read several times, that the Audigy 2 could not give proper 24-bit sound, and was actually a glorified and slightly patched up 16-bit sound card.
Here's one Audigy 4... http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=174219
the audigy 1 was pretty bogus (24 bit DAC, only 18 data pins connected), not sure about the 2
I was thinking of getting a good sound card, you reckon it'd be better to buy this new Audigy 4, or buy the Audigy 2 when it goes down in price, even though it isn't true 24bit?
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Thought you wanted a good sound card?
I wouldn't buy either, both seem like a scam.
lol, tell me about it.
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Well there is SATAII but the limiting factor for hard drives isn't the interface but the mechanics of the drives.
What is the source of your information? Got a link?PCI Express. I am another one of those who copies the way the magazines name it....
T'was in one of my magazines. Let me have a flick through to find it.
In the meantime, I've emailed PCI SIG, the governing board over all things PCI, and they'll probs give me a reply about it.
Last edited by Xaneden; 14-02-2005 at 07:33 PM.
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It took surprisingly less time to flick through my massive pile of PC Mags for the article, so here it is:
It is from PC Pro, March 2005, Issue 125, Page 32.
The next version of the PCI Express spec is going to double throughput to 5GB/s. But that could be bad news for gamers who had hoped a new version of the standard would provide and even greater bandwidth for high content games.
The PCI Special Internet Group (PCI-SIG) is believed to have considered a range of speeds, including 6GB/s and 7GB/s, but for the new PCI Express 2 standard, the slower 5GB/s was chosen.
The full specification is currently being drafted - largely by the same people who developed the PCI Express 1.0a spec - and could be with manufacturers by the end of this year, but products won't be available until 2007.
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True, unless you RAID 0 three or more Raptors in an array. Then it's data transfer.
Edit: Xcelsion ...link doesn't work.
Last edited by StormPC; 14-02-2005 at 07:48 PM.
Which link?Edit: Xcelsion ...link doesn't work.
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It is from PC Pro, March 2005, Issue 125, Page 32 ???
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