PCI Express 3.0 delayedPost Date: 2009-08-22 |
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DST4ME ![]() DS ELITE ![]() ![]() Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 36758 |
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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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sirsiddius ![]() Groupie ![]() Joined: 18 Aug 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 441 |
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"most of the members in the standards group were happy with the delay" LOL what pr BS.
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Sodius ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 18 Jan 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 613 |
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Backwards-compatiblility I feel is a must.
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sirsiddius ![]() Groupie ![]() Joined: 18 Aug 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 441 |
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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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Sodius ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 18 Jan 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 613 |
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It is not broke, so they improve it. The Motto of technology, "if it is not broke, improve it."
![]() Edited by Sodius - 25 Aug 2009 at 1:16pm |
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<8) slunK parade ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 20 Jan 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 798 |
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if its not broken you probably will break it by messing with it P:
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venom ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 08 Oct 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
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^ been there done that...
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Zurginator ![]() Groupie ![]() Joined: 30 Mar 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 343 |
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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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DST4ME ![]() DS ELITE ![]() ![]() Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 36758 |
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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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Zurginator ![]() Groupie ![]() Joined: 30 Mar 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 343 |
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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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