with different encoding method, presumably the controller chip will need to understand both for backwards compatibility. wouldn't that drive the cost of motherboard and graphics card up?
Originally Posted by wuyanxu with different encoding method, presumably the controller chip will need to understand both for backwards compatibility. wouldn't that drive the cost of motherboard and graphics card up?
Not really, it's just another fixed function in the silicon. The fact that it's faster already pushes up cost more because of the quality of raw materials needed to make the faster process reliable.
Originally Posted by Bindibadgi Not really, it's just another fixed function in the silicon. The fact that it's faster already pushes up cost more because of the quality of raw materials needed to make the faster process reliable.
But the article says that it will be cheaper to make as it draws less power...
I'm thankful they didn't increase power consumption again. 150W through the slot is plenty, and considering many enthusiasts own a power supply with at least a 6 pin connector, so we should be fine (Plus, I don't think people are going to be running 580 GTX cards with the current limiter off on 400W units)
i don't think even gtx580 are hitting PCIe 2.0 limits.
i shall take this upon myself and test :D if i place my sound card in 2nd 16x slot on my mobo, i'll force main GPU to run at 8x mode, which i can then test to see if performance is being limited. my guess is gtx580 won't even use full 8x PCIe 2.0 at the moment.
I'm sure I've seen tests somewhere that showed the GTX 480 wasn't restricted by x8, so as we already have x16 waiting to become useful, who on earth is going to make use of this at any point before 2015?
So since graphics cards arent saturating 2.0 specs I would assume this is more aimed at highend Raid SSD PCI-E devices? at least for the time being....
Originally Posted by HourBeforeDawn So since graphics cards arent saturating 2.0 specs I would assume this is more aimed at highend Raid SSD PCI-E devices? at least for the time being....
Actually there's an SSD still on the front page that could make use of it... I guess it will trickle down to us little guys eventually though.
in respect to the new hardware, are we coming any where near saturating the old hardware? Will this be a must have upgrade when NVidia/Ati release yet another family of cards? Are we upgrading just because "its new!?"
On that thought, is there a piece of hardware gpu or not that actually saturates a pci-e 2 port?
Originally Posted by Lockon Stratos PCI-Ex 3.0, USB 3 & SATA 3 - sounds like a spiffingly good time to upgrade
Except that one isn't available yet and another has already been overtaken :D
not to mention the fact that Sata 3 (6GB/s) is more a gimmick and only useful if you use with a SSD or 15k RPM hard drive. since hard drives dont even max out the sata 2 bandwidth.
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ReplyNot really, it's just another fixed function in the silicon. The fact that it's faster already pushes up cost more because of the quality of raw materials needed to make the faster process reliable.
+1 That was the biggest pain in the arse about AGP -> PCI-E.
Yeah I'm still pissed about how my old PC basically became obselete three months after I bought it
No it says that 8GT/s is cheaper than 10GT/s, yet provides the same usable bandwidth. ;) It's a relative amount :)
One thing though, are graphics cards close to maxing out the usage of PCIe2.0? I am a relative noob in this respect.
If I recall right, they didn't even max out PCIe1.1
i shall take this upon myself and test :D if i place my sound card in 2nd 16x slot on my mobo, i'll force main GPU to run at 8x mode, which i can then test to see if performance is being limited. my guess is gtx580 won't even use full 8x PCIe 2.0 at the moment.
You said it. Phew!
Indeed!
Actually there's an SSD still on the front page that could make use of it... I guess it will trickle down to us little guys eventually though.
It would be nice to run on PCI-E 3.0 at x4 mode though and still get top performance. :)
Except that one isn't available yet and another has already been overtaken :D
On that thought, is there a piece of hardware gpu or not that actually saturates a pci-e 2 port?
not to mention the fact that Sata 3 (6GB/s) is more a gimmick and only useful if you use with a SSD or 15k RPM hard drive. since hard drives dont even max out the sata 2 bandwidth.
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