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PCI - Express

Started by DigitalChaos Mar 31, 2004 at 5:27 AM 3 replies 400+ views

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Mar 31, 2004 at 5:27 AM

PCI-Express is coming soon to demolish AGP. I read that PCIX will be able to communicate from high end graphic cards to PCs at about 2.5Gbps per lane per direction. What does this mean for game programmers and developers? What will this technology allow in future games? What kind of significant things will we see in games? Or will this technology just make your computer faster? I''m kinda lost at the idea of how PCI-Express will help us.

_DarkWIng_

Mar 31, 2004 at 5:34 AM

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ApochPiQ

Mar 31, 2004 at 11:54 AM

It means this will be feasible in realtime.

Doc

Mar 31, 2004 at 11:27 PM

It''ll be good as long as they don''t bugger it up and make it "singular special purpose" like AGP did.

ApochPiQ

Mar 31, 2004 at 11:48 PM

They won''t. If you''ve read the proposal documents that Intel has put out, true PCI-Express is a revision of the entire PC architecture. Unfortunately for the sake of backwards compatibility (read: combatibility with those who are backwards) it will be many years before we see pure PCIX systems. Until then they will be hybridized.

Either way, PCIX will be a major improvement to the architecture, and many good things are to come.

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