PCI-X - When is it expected?

petal · Post by **petal** » Thu Mar 20, 2003 5:37 am

I did a search on the net and could not find any infomation about, when this new PCI-X standard is supposed to be released.

Does any of you know?

Cheers!
Thomas

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Havoc · Post by **Havoc** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 11:59 am

If it ever comes. PCI-Express is already on the horizon and as pci-x is not yet taking of, it may never happen and be directly overtaken by pci-express.

Anyway, do you expect creamware to use it when they could already have used 64/66 pci on the first pulsar? That said, there isn't a single sound card using anything over 32/33.

Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 1:21 pm

Does this mean that The PCI bandwidth can't be exploited and that we will have PCI overflows?

petal · Post by **petal** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 5:54 pm

Hey, thanks for answering!

PCI-Express.... never heart of it, I'll have to check up on it.

One could speculate that the reason why they havn't introduced a new card yet, is because they want to make sure which PCI-standard to build/finish the card on.

But the question was also because I am thinking about upgrading my pc, but I can wait a few months more, if necasary.

Cheers!
Thomas

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 2:35 am

That said, there isn't a single sound card using anything over 32/33.

Except for Protools|HD which is 64/33...

Havoc · Post by **Havoc** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 6:35 am

Maniac: no, we use everything 32/33 can offer. 64/66 uses different connector but is backward compatible. 64/66 was known when pulsar arrived, but motherboards were sparse.

Petal: it will take more than a few months before pci-express arrives. Some boards have pci-x, but not mainstream, look for server boards.

Kimgr: do they? Honestly never taken a look at it. To expensive and more mac oriented for me. But it is only logical to do so.

EarlyFirst · Post by **EarlyFirst** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 7:29 pm

It was sold by IBM today

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8655