mAJORgAMER
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Yhea that a good point. But maybe they have stop working on it by now i dont know. Anyway, my priority is to get a mobo whit pci-e 2.0 enable for the upcoming 9000 serie GPU. So this is one of the few available right now.
MOBO that support PCi-e 2.0 amd 45nm
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Yhea that a good point. But maybe they have stop working on it by now i dont know. Anyway, my priority is to get a mobo whit pci-e 2.0 enable for the upcoming 9000 serie GPU. So this is one of the few available right now.
At present there are some 9 8xxx series models available at newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&N=2000380048+1069633099&name=PCI+Express+2.0
One concern when the 9800s do come out is that they have far better driver support then. Lately some who rushed for 8800s are now in the same boat I was with a new DX10 compatible ATI model as far as driver problems. That's why I remind people that the software side always takes longer then hardware side. Long Horn(Vista) is a prime example of that one!
One concern when the 9800s do come out is that they have far better driver support then. Lately some who rushed for 8800s are now in the same boat I was with a new DX10 compatible ATI model as far as driver problems. That's why I remind people that the software side always takes longer then hardware side. Long Horn(Vista) is a prime example of that one!
uh, PCIe 1.1 came out like 5 years ago. I'm pretty sure all the new cards that will be coming out for a while will be supported by pci2.0
PCI-E 4x has only been around and soon replaced by PCI-E 16x for about 3yrs. or so while 2.0 is just now being seen. The link here shows the 9 models that newegg is presently carrying. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&N=2010380048+1069633099&name=PCI+Express+2.0
At present the only PCI-E 2.0 SLI board found at newegg is the Asus Inetl model seen at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131218
At present the only PCI-E 2.0 SLI board found at newegg is the Asus Inetl model seen at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131218
That board supports crossfire but it doesn't support SLI as far as I know. And that's not the only one that supports pcie2.0, all of these do: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010200280+107172333&name=Intel+X38
If it's x38, it supports 2.0
You'll have to excuse the typo there. 
That was the only Crossfire model found. 
I guess I'm not in any rush for either SLI or Crossfire adding a second HD 2600XT card in. I was hoping AMD would have had their own quad models out by the time the new build was in progress here. Now apparently I will be looking at PCI-E 3.0 on the next build when they do finally come out.
That was the only Crossfire model found. I guess I'm not in any rush for either SLI or Crossfire adding a second HD 2600XT card in. I was hoping AMD would have had their own quad models out by the time the new build was in progress here. Now apparently I will be looking at PCI-E 3.0 on the next build when they do finally come out.
When PCIe 1.0 was released in 2002 is wasnt just X4. It had 1X-2X-4X-8X-12X and 16X lanes slots. Having 2X-4X-8X and 12X lanes didnt catch on that well and most boards have 1X and 16X lanes slots but some boards still have X4 and X8 lane slots. A 12X lane slot just never caught on.
Did you say 2002?
PCI Express, officially abbreviated as PCI-E or PCIe, is a computer expansion card interface format introduced by Intel in 2004. It was designed to replace the general purpose PCI expansion bus, the high end PCI-X bus and the AGP graphics card interface. Unlike previous PC expansion interfaces rather than being a bus it is structured around point to point full duplex serial links called lanes. In PCIe 1.1 (the most common version as of 2007) each lane carries 250 MB/s in each direction. PCIe 2.0 doubles this and PCIe 3.0 doubles it again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express
[FONT=arial,helvetica]PCI Express Technology[/FONT]
Download PDF (533)February 2004
Joe Sekel, Dell Server Architecture and Technology
Formerly known as 3GIO, PCI Express is the open standards- based successor to PCI and its variants for server- and client-system I/O interconnects. Unlike PCI and PCI-X, which are based on 32- and 64-bit parallel buses, PCI Express uses high-speed serial link technology similar to that found in Gigabit1 Ethernet, Serial ATA (SATA), and Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS). PCI Express reflects an industry trend to replace legacy shared parallel buses with high-speed point-to-point serial buses. http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/vectors/en/2004_pciexpress?c=us&l=en&s=corp
PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) Express is a scalable I/O (Input/Output) serial bus technology set to replace parallel PCI bus which came standard on motherboards manufactured from the early 1990s through 2004. In the latter part of 2004 PCI Express slots began appearing alongside standard slots, starting a gradual transition. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-pci-express.htm
Yea I said 2002, PCIe was approved as a standard in July 2002 and nothing about your post had anything to do with you saying PCIe was just X4 moving on to X16 later and it wasnt.
http://www.pcisig.com/news_room/PCI_Family_History.pdf
PCI Express
Originally known as 3rd Generation I/O (3GIO), PCI Express, or PCIe, was approved as a standard on July 2002 and is a computer bus found in computers. PCI Express is designed to replace PCI and AGP and is available in several different formats: x1, x2, x4, x8, x12, x16 and x32
http://www.pcisig.com/news_room/PCI_Family_History.pdf
PCI Express
Originally known as 3rd Generation I/O (3GIO), PCI Express, or PCIe, was approved as a standard on July 2002 and is a computer bus found in computers. PCI Express is designed to replace PCI and AGP and is available in several different formats: x1, x2, x4, x8, x12, x16 and x32
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The first boards seeing PCI-E 1x and then 4x were first seen in 2004. 12x would never have worked out since everything doubles with each step up. 1x goes to 2x to 4x to 8x and then onto 16x which saw the largest increment from 1x to 4x to 16x.
This is what you were missing there. Once a standard is accepted it still takes a few years before being seen on the market since that has to be then included in new board designs. Work on Long Horn started around that time as well but we know how MS was ssslowww there taking forever to see Vista come out(and now people don't want it? 
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This is what you were missing there. Once a standard is accepted it still takes a few years before being seen on the market since that has to be then included in new board designs. Work on Long Horn started around that time as well but we know how MS was ssslowww
there taking forever to see Vista come out(and now people don't want it? ).
The first boards seeing PCI-E 1x and then 4x were first seen in 2004. 12x would never have worked out since everything doubles with each step up. 1x goes to 2x to 4x to 8x and then onto 16x which saw the largest increment from 1x to 4x to 16x.
This is what you were missing there. Once a standard is accepted it still takes a few years before being seen on the market since that has to be then included in new board designs. Work on Long Horn started around that time as well but we know how MS was ssslowww
PCIe 1.0 was approved in 2002 and did not start out as X4 and moved on to X16 like you said, it was 1X-2X-4X-8X-12X and 16X from the beginning. And yes a X12 slot would work just fine, that double up your talking about can you count 2-4-6-8-12 and 16. The only reason is 12X just did not catch on, you rarely even see 4X and X8 slots.