PCI-Express

[ursinus]

Hi there,

one quick question needs one quick answer: What is PCI-Express? And if it defined that MOBO supports PCI-Express, does the Graphic card need to be PCI-Express?

ursinus

 

[Bobo]

Hi there,

one quick question needs one quick answer: What is PCI-Express? And if it defined that MOBO supports PCI-Express, does the Graphic card need to be PCI-Express?

ursinus

PCI-E is the successor to AGP. You need a PCI-E mobo to use with a PCI-E graphics card.

Many mobos have PCI-E 16x and PCI-E 1x. The graphics card uses the 16x, afaik

 

[TheChef]

Few devices have been made for the x1 slot, and most of them are more expensive than a regular PSI device would be, for little performance gain.

 

[fade2green514]

PCI-E is the successor to AGP. You need a PCI-E mobo to use with a PCI-E graphics card.

Many mobos have PCI-E 16x and PCI-E 1x. The graphics card uses the 16x, afaik

correction! pci-express is the succession to all expansion slots prior to it. it will replace pci slots soon enough with high bandwidth ultimately greatly increasing the performance of expansion cards. (that is, once cards are made for the interface)
x1 = one pci express lane, x16 = 16 pci express lanes.

if the motherboard supports pci-express it does NOT mean that you need a pci-express graphics card. there could be integrated graphics, you could have regular pci graphics... or the motherboard could have AGP and PCI-Express. but to maximize performance the pci-express slot is highly suggested.

 

[Mr.Suave]

could have just looked in video card 101.

PCIE. An abbreviation for PCI-Express (and sometimes abbreviated as PCIEx16), this specification, formerly known as 3GIO, PCIE is a very high-speed serialized interface which can be somewhat 'parallelized' by grouping 'lanes' of PCIE (or PCIEx1) together. Each lane provides 250MB/s with video devices having access to either 8-lanes (2GB/s) or 16-lanes (4GB/s) (more on this later in VFAQ)

 

[Bobo]

correction! pci-express is the succession to all expansion slots prior to it. it will replace pci slots soon enough with high bandwidth ultimately greatly increasing the performance of expansion cards. (that is, once cards are made for the interface)
x1 = one pci express lane, x16 = 16 pci express lanes.

if the motherboard supports pci-express it does NOT mean that you need a pci-express graphics card. there could be integrated graphics, you could have regular pci graphics... or the motherboard could have AGP and PCI-Express. but to maximize performance the pci-express slot is highly suggested.

Dude, I was trying to put this in simple terms. I know perfectly well all that you have stated, but I was just saying that PCIE is replacing AGP for video cards right now and that you would need a pcie mobo with a pcie card.

dammit....you sound so much like me, correcting people and being so literal about everything. One time i try to not be specific about everything......oh whatever i'll shut up now