PCI Express

[Aaron Grewell]

On Friday 24 September 2004 07:02, Tom Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 08:19, Net Llama! wrote:
> > I'm honestly not even sure what a PCI Express is.

It's the follow-on to PCI and AGP.  Basically instead of two different kinds 
of slots you've got slots at different speeds, sorta like the 64-bit/32-bit 
or 66MHz/33MHz splits in PCI today.  Different speed slots will be used for 
cards that need them, so a video card uses a faster slot than, say, a sound 
card.  The cards aren't backwards compatible, so from the end-user 
perspective it mostly means that after a while it'll become difficult to get 
PCI cards, forcing you to get a new mobo.  At least that's the preference of 
the manufacturers, anyway...