PCI Express is now out

Shayne White · Post by **Shayne White** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 12:17 pm

I'm not sure if anything is shipping yet, but chipsets and motherboards have been announced with PCI Express support. Now here's the downside: these early boards are shipping with only two PCI-E x1 slots, and some of them only have two legacy PCI slots! That isn't going to work well with our CW setups. We'll have to wait and see what happens. I'm waiting for three slots of each type.

Shayne

maakbow · Post by **maakbow** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 4:37 pm

There doesnt seem to be much advantage in going 775 yet. [except maybe 4x sata raid on chip]
probably the advantages wont be seen till late this year.
current chipsets will still be suported thoughout this year...so it may be a long wait if you want to upgrade.
By then the prescotts will be a decent speed and hopefully cooler and mobos[chipset] will officially support higher speed ddr2

Maak

[ This Message was edited by: maakbow on 2004-07-03 17:40 ]

bronYaur · Post by **bronYaur** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 12:00 pm

new Intel D925XCV have 4 PCI Slot and DDR2

http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/cv ... bd_d925xcv&

[ This Message was edited by: bronYaur on 2004-07-04 13:02 ]

Post by **garyb** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 2:48 pm

that looks really nice....

valis · Post by **valis** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 9:31 pm

Just a note: afaik ASUS is the current manufacturer of Intel's mainstream/workstation boards.

[ This Message was edited by: valis on 2004-07-04 22:32 ]