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For those of you who keep up with computer technology more than I do: How long do you think it will be before motherboards supporting PCI are no longer available? One of the things that concerns me about the Creamware cards is their lifespan. Already, you can't use them with G5's.

Is the demise of PCI far away?

Just something I've been thinking about lately.

Well, from what I understand PCI Express mobos are going to have plenty of PCI slots alongside them, since the two slot types live back-to-back on one slot space. ISA boards hung around for a long time: several years. In any case, here's what I think should happen: when PCI Express mobos and cards come out, CreamWare should offer an exchange deal where we pay for the cost of the new hardware, and they transfer all the keys. That way it doesn't cost them anything for the exchange deal, and the actual price of the hardware shouldn't be too expensive for us. I'd go for that if PCI Express became available.

MOTU is doing that very thing with 3.3v cards -- pretty easy, isn't it?

Shayne

About 5~10 years+

Even hard core quad opteron server boards come with one 32bit 5V pci slot.

Its only really Apple G5 lameness that's causing problems.

The modular design of current and future chipsets will mean that normal PCI will remain a really easy and cheap option for mobo manufacturers.

Thanks for your replies, they are reassuring. I just came across this post over at kvr:

http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=481312