pci x sound card

[PP Mguire]

PCI-E and they have already showed the makings on a crappy one. Its in the news.

 

[limqareb]

so what is the diference both mean pci express?

 

[equk]

so what is the diference both mean pci express?

pci-x (Peripheral Component Interconnect Extended)

pci-e

PCI Express, which is abbreviated officially with PCIe (PCI-E is also often used) and should not be mistaken for PCI-X, is an implementation of the PCI connection standard that uses existing PCI programming concepts, but bases it on a completely different and much faster full duplex, multi-lane, point to point serial physical-layer communications protocol. PCI Express was formerly known as Arapaho or 3GIO for 3rd Generation I/O.

 

[BigD]

ughhh if sound cards are going to start to be pci-e then pci slots will be outdated even more... wich means a new mobo with 8 pci-e slots or sumthin

lame

stick to pci for sound, its not like its bottlenecking it that much is it?

 

[PP Mguire]

Not since most cards have their own audio processors to take the load off the CPU. The PCI bus shouldnt be lagging it at all. Its all in the continuation of technology. ISA went to PCI, PCI to PCI-E, PCI to AGP, AGP to PCI-E ect. Not that bad. I only use PCI for my wireless and even now thats PCI-E. No use anymore!

 

[limqareb]

ok got the point sorry for the mistake then

 

[equk]

ok got the point sorry for the mistake then

no-one can know everything about everything tbh

 

[PP Mguire]

Its cool, i used to do the same thing really.

 

[Allsorts]

i wonder if creative will produce a pci-x sound card?

Yep, they've conquered the PCI bus with the X-fi, so now they're going to give the PCI-E bus a good seeing to. Rice Crispies anyone?

 

[Mr. Popo]

no-one can know everything about everything tbh

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[Phnom_Penh]

I'll point out that this card isn't a PCI-E card, just to mess things up .