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5th January 2008, 12:16 | #1 |
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| PCI Express 2.0: Scalable Interconnect Technology, TNG Purchasing a PCI Express 2.0 graphics cards at this time is future proofing more than anything else; we haven't noticed any performance differences when comparing PCI-E 1.x chipsets to PCI-E 2.0 chipsets with the newer GPUs, and we don't expect you to either. PCI-E 2.0 may prove more useful as a way to provide four x8 slots that each offer the same bandwidth as the older 1.x x16 slots. With Triple-SLI, Tri-Fire, and talk of GPU physics accelerators, including additional high-bandwidth slots on motherboards makes sense. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=3192&p=1 |
5th January 2008, 12:17 | #2 |
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| Another one by Kristopher "FCG" Boughton for Anand, another interesting read. |
5th January 2008, 12:48 | #3 |
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| Why can't we ditch the southbridge? That would make motherboards layouts less complicated. |
5th January 2008, 23:01 | #4 |
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| Ditching the southbridge means you just ditched all of your SATA ports, sound, and everything else that uses I/O like USB ports, PS/2 ports, etc. I guess you hadn't looked to closely at some of the Nehalem platforms though... some of them ditched the northbridge |
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