Is PCX Taking the P***?

[Butcher]

That's not a link...

[Xaneden]

lol, sorry. I made it bold and underlined to show that the text underneath was the article in question. Sorry if there was any misunderstanding.

[aidanjt]

Rave, absolutly right, Serial technology is just increasing all the time.. yep most SATA cables have 6 wires, higher quality ones have 4 pairs.

Who remembers Intels gamble with Rambus Industries?.. it was a big one, and RDRAM was in every way technically superiour to DDR, except Rambus shot themselves in the foot with one thing.. royalties, they kept the prices well above that of DDR, although considering the performance difference I think the price difference was negligable. I found it a bit amusing after RDRAM sorta disapeared off the market Dual-Channel PC3200 memory controllers started being intergrated on motherboards, which was one of the arguments cited by DDR fans of why people should go for DDR..

anyway... how they are managing to fit the speeds 16x PCI-E is giving in contrast to AGP I'm not entirely sure, considering they have *reduced* the amount of tracks to the CPU/Northbridge. they might have picked up some method to reenforce the signaling so they could drop the frequency ranges between the bands.

anyway... when will it all come to a grinding halt!!!.. when will the day come that we will all need to own a cluster to play the latest and greatest hot 3D games?.

[StormPC]

That's not a link...

I know...but it should have been. My question is why isn't it a link?

[Xaneden]

... Erm, Storm, I typed out the article from 'PC Pro'. PC Pro is a magazine, and thus I can't give you a link.

[Butcher]

I know...but it should have been. My question is why isn't it a link?

You can't link to a piece of paper.

[StormPC]

You can't link to a piece of paper.

And they said your posts aren't informative. What were they talking about?

[Xaneden]

Lol, now now children....

[Wyoming]

Oh dear, I'm about to upgrade to PCI-E, and it's about to be phased out.
Great...

[Xaneden]

Holy Thread Revival!

[oralpain]

I just moved to PCI-E and honestly I hadn't expected the original revision to last this long. Doesn't bother me.

In all probability the PCI-E v2 will be backwards compatable, and even if it's not, motherboard's aren't all that expensive.

Even if PCI-E 2.0 comes out in 2007, it's still going to come out after AMDs new socket anyway.

Standards evolve. Trying to build a computer that will be fully upgradeable to the top of the line stuff 2 years in the future is always going to be totaly futile. A new standard, or a faster component, does not make what you already have any slower, in absolute terms.

[Xaneden]

It has been announced that the new PCIe will be backwards compatible. They had 3 choices of speed etc, and they chose the slowest so that it would:

1) Come out sooner
2) Be easier for them to provide the backwards compatability demanded.

Still, it seems strange to me at least that they would release an updated standard when its original version hasn't even been adopted yet.