when is pci express coming out?

[onearmedscissor]

does anyone know when pci express motherboards will be available to buy separately? i see that only alienware has them right now. thanks.

 

[xdviper]

intel has them for sale
they are for the new p4 chips i think

 

[Kevin003]

Yeah they are already out but don't get one unless you wanna buy really exspensive video cards that don't live up to the agp potential. And i don't think pci express will be standard and actually have good cards for about a year.

 

[BillLeeLee]

1 month ago...
PCI-Express is very new, and seeing as how there is a spectacular shortage of PCI-Express devices, I wouldn't be buying anything in this first generation. Wait a while before PCI-Express becomes widespread.

 

[EnderW]

1 month ago...
PCI-Express is very new, and seeing as how there is a spectacular shortage of PCI-Express devices, I wouldn't be buying anything in this first generation. Wait a while before PCI-Express becomes widespread.

I agree. There isn't a performance difference anyway.

NO reason whatsoever to buy PCI-E IMO.

 

[XeRo_Dark]

what is PCI-Express??? it seems im sorta out of the loop on the latest things comming out.....

 

[BillLeeLee]

PCI Express is the answer to a world of increasingly bandwidth hungry PCI devices. The PCI bus on systems today is only 33 Mhz, and maximum transfer on the entire PCI bus is only 133 MB/s. This lack of bandwidth is what prompted the need for AGP ports for graphics cards years back.

PCI Express is a serial device interface, and (I believe) each device gets its own independent bandwidth lane, and the basic specification is 250 MB/s one way. This can be scaled by adding more data transfer lanes - PCI Express video cards are x16, which theoretically means 8 GB/s (4 GB/s one way).

 

[XXX-OWNEDBYME-XXX]

pci express are almost twice as fast at anything they do that mostly reoson to buy them