New PCI Standard Delayed Until Mid-2010
New PCI Standard Delayed Until Mid-2010
Posted 08/05/2009 at 3:19pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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The new PCI protocol, which has promised to double the data transfer rates of many add-on cards, has been delayed until mid-next year.
According to the PCI Special Interest Group, the protocol (which was due in 2009) will be held back even though most of the work has been done. Apparently, many problems have arisen with backwards compatibility and electrical requirements. But, moreover, the group has “underestimated the sheer amount of work needed” to get it out the door.
PCI 3.0 will reportedly provide speeds of 32GB/second, along with decreasing the amount of power drawn. Motherboards featuring this standard are expected to show up sometime in summer 2011.
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LatiosXT
August 05, 2009 at 9:59pm
The article is very misleading. According to our loveable Wikipedia, PCI is already 3.0, and it's the final version.
SodaAnt
August 05, 2009 at 7:19pm
Somehow, neither this or the source article make it clear that it's pci-e 3.0, not pci 3.0. First of all, pcihas nowhere near 32Gb/s bandwith, and second, the source article makes refrences to high end graphics cards, which haven't run on pci for years. Third, the article has a picture of a 4850X2, which is a pci-e card.
SodaAnt
August 05, 2009 at 7:19pm
Somehow, neither this or the source article make it clear that it's pci-e 3.0, not pci 3.0. First of all, pcihas nowhere near 32Gb/s bandwith, and second, the source article makes refrences to high end graphics cards, which haven't run on pci for years. Third, the article has a picture of a 4850X2, which is a pci-e card.
Gailim
August 05, 2009 at 5:03pm
why do we need this on boards? setups like the P6T6 are the future, not an updated PCI
ogremustcrush
August 05, 2009 at 4:25pm
I didn't realize that PCI was still being updated. I though it was pretty much dead, superceeded by PCIE like it succeeded ISA. I guess if they're going to throw 1 or 2 on a board anyway for people with legacy equipment, they could stand to be faster, but wont updating the bus just impede the introduction of more PCIE equipment? PCI uses a parallel bus which is inferior in several ways to the serial bus used in PCIE, most interfaces in the PC have moved to serial busses because of the issues with clocking a parallel bus past a certain point. I don't know why they would want to keep moving on this old pardigm.
ogremustcrush
August 05, 2009 at 4:25pm
I didn't realize that PCI was still being updated. I though it was pretty much dead, superceeded by PCIE like it succeeded ISA. I guess if they're going to throw 1 or 2 on a board anyway for people with legacy equipment, they could stand to be faster, but wont updating the bus just impede the introduction of more PCIE equipment? PCI uses a parallel bus which is inferior in several ways to the serial bus used in PCIE, most interfaces in the PC have moved to serial busses because of the issues with clocking a parallel bus past a certain point. I don't know why they would want to keep moving on this old pardigm.
sbradford26
August 05, 2009 at 5:52pm
They are talking about pci express 3.0 in this article if you look at the last paragraph.
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