Death of agp video cards or the begining of PCI Express x16?

[Deimos]

Originally posted by Riptide
My SCSI host supports PCI-X. Any ideas on when it'll be available in a motherboard?? Right now..sort of. Actually I believe MSI has it on one of it's mainboards for Opteron processors.

/Deimos

[Steppy]

Originally posted by borntosoul
as far as i know pci express comes in different speeds, pci express for the video card and slower pci express to replace pci yes it is scalable...they just add another connection...that is what the x? behind the slot means. A Pci-express x16 slot means it has 16 connections...etc.

[sebazve]

which one is better PCI-X or PCI Express?

[shabby]

The other one is better.

[Dazz]

The latter one he means aka PCI Express.

[yoladude]

i really really don't see the point, as agp 8x isn't even offering a big performance advantage over 4x. and if pci-express is even faster than agp 8x, than what does it matter, really? if there is a big/noticeable performance diff, i'll believe it when i see it. i'm guessing i'll see it a year or two down the road, if not more.

[Deimos]

Look at it this way: PCI has to go, because it is'a bottleneck in a lot of situations. If PCI has to go, then AGP might go as well, and then replace the two with a single configurable bus instead.

Why? Cheaper. One bus instead of two always saves you money.

/Deimos

[Placid]

Video card roadmap.

http://www.vr-zone.com/Home/news196/news196.htm#3035

[Paul]

Originally posted by Placid
Video card roadmap.

http://www.vr-zone.com/Home/news196/news196.htm#3035

...which is false, as has been discussed a number of times before.

[Placid]

It is the rumor mill ya know :p