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Post Date: 2009-08-22

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    Posted: 22 Aug 2009 at 3:21am
PCI Express 3.0 delayed

Will not be in the shops until 2011


PCI SIG has decided to delay the release of the PCI Express 3.0 specification until the second quarter of 2010. This means that any products that will ship with the new specification won't be released until 2011 According to PC Magazine. PCI Express 3.0 was supposed to be released this year, with products due about a year after the spec's release, or in 2010.

Al Yanes, the president of the SIG said that there were problems getting backward compatibility with current PCI Express standards, such as the older PCI Express 1.0 and PCI Express 2.0. He said that while PCI gen 3 providing so much more capabilities but with the need to be still backwards-compatible it was taking longer than expected. Most of the delays are tied to verifying products in the lab. However the standard boffins have managed to move the 8-bit and 10-bit encoding schemes to 128-bit and 130-bit encoding.

However the real trick was to enable the proper encoding schemes at the three speeds used by the three PCI Express versions: 2.5-GHz, 5.0-GHz, and the new 8.0-GHz speed. Apparently most of the members in the standards group were happy with the delay.

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  Quote sirsiddius Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 23 Aug 2009 at 6:18am
"most of the members in the standards group were happy with the delay" LOL what pr BS.
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  Quote Sodius Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 25 Aug 2009 at 12:13am
Backwards-compatiblility I feel is a must. Ermm
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  Quote sirsiddius Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 25 Aug 2009 at 1:01pm
I want to know what's wrong with pcie 2.0 so that they had come up with a pcie 3.0. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
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  Quote Sodius Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 25 Aug 2009 at 1:14pm
It is not broke, so they improve it. The Motto of technology, "if it is not broke, improve it." Star

Edited by Sodius - 25 Aug 2009 at 1:16pm
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  Quote <8) slunK parade Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 26 Aug 2009 at 1:03am
if its not broken you probably will break it by messing with it P:
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  Quote venom Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 26 Aug 2009 at 1:52am
^ been there done that...
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  Quote Zurginator Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 01 Sep 2009 at 5:15pm
Figured I will post this here as well:

Ok, so I've heard a lot of crap going around about PCI-e x16 2.0 being maxed out. Well since I own a pretty decent card (GTX 260) and a motherboard that happens to have x16, x8, x4, and an x1 slot, I figured I would test some stuff out.

FPS average (3x through the GPU bench in Crysis):
x16: 30fps
x8: 30fps
x4: 27fps


I think this proves we really don't need x16 yet (maybe for dual GPU cards, but even then I'm not sure, as x4 is almost enough for mine).
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  Quote DST4ME Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 01 Sep 2009 at 6:03pm
Actually it seems like the 260 does not make that much of a difference but cards above it do, also did you fill the 3 slots with 3 cards or did you just move one card to each slot?
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  Quote Zurginator Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 01 Sep 2009 at 7:46pm
Moved 1 card. xP

But still, if a 260 only needs ~x6, then a 275/285 at most should need x8 or x10.

The only things I can really see using anywhere near x16 are the 4870x2 and 295. GT300 will *probably* hit ~x14 based on the specs floating around, so until then, 3.0 really isn't needed.
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