Dailytech said:Yesterday the PCI Express Special Interest Group, also known as PCI-SIG, announced that it finalized the PCI Express 2.0 specifications. The specifications initially entered the release candidate stage a little over three months ago.
The new PCI Express 2.0 Bus Specification doubles the interconnect bit rate from 2.5 GBps to 5 GBps. PCI-SIG describes this bandwidth hike as “by far the most important feature of the PCI Express 2.0 specifications.” Doubling the interconnect bit rate increases the aggregate bandwidth of a single PCI Express x16 slot to 16 GBps.
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Looks like this is a good excuse for me to hold out longer on Conroe :