whats out there for our new friend PCI Express?

[legoalex2000]

ok from the obvious facts, PCI-E has taken a firm seat in the graphics market with X16.

but the PCI-E Consortium also has X1 (another Popular slot) and X4 and X8.

I did some research on newegg for PCI-E X1 cards. a couple of NIC's and 2 crappy internal USB hubs popped up, but nothing special.

what is to become of X4 and X8? i was told logn ag they are for business and industry... but whats the real story?

[smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]Ramos

[congo]

Well, they are just waiting to be exploited is all.

[Ivan]

ok from the obvious facts, PCI-E has taken a firm seat in the graphics market with X16.

but the PCI-E Consortium also has X1 (another Popular slot) and X4 and X8.

I did some research on newegg for PCI-E X1 cards. a couple of NIC's and 2 crappy internal USB hubs popped up, but nothing special.

what is to become of X4 and X8? i was told logn ag they are for business and industry... but whats the real story?

[smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]Ramos

X16 is for graphic cards, Physics accels and SAS SCSI adapters
X4 and X8... havent seen these yet
X1: seen some SATA cards for these as well as gigabit LAN