PCI Express 3.0 Hits Setback, Products Delayed Until 2011
PCI Express 3.0 Hits Setback, Products Delayed Until 2011
Posted 08/21/2009 at 10:22am
| by Paul Lilly
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Don't worry about your swank new motherboard soon being outdated by new models boasting PCI-E 3.0 support, the new specification is running into some unexpected snags, Fudzilla reports.
The main issue boils down to backwards compatibility and getting the PCI-E 3.0 specification to play nice with current PCI-E standards. Before the third gen PCI-E can get a stamp of approval, PCI SIG needs to verify products in the lab, and this is taking longer than expected.
"In this particular case, with pushing the technology so hard, and with PCI gen 3 providing so much more capabilities but with the need to be still backwards-compatible, we had to do the diligence required to move the date," said Al Yanes, president of PCI SIG.
The PCI-E 3.0- specification was originally supposed to be released this year, but now it looks like the second quarter of 2010 at the earliest. This would push shipments of products based on the new spec to 2011.
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digital demon
August 21, 2009 at 10:53pm
I was going to say the same thing. Why is it even necessary? Games don't even saturate a PCI-E 1.0 bus. Why the hell do we need 3.0?
i guess I should know why...to sell more hardware. Nothing like a shiny new slot and buzzword to make people rush to Newegg the day it's released.
urmumsacow
August 21, 2009 at 7:04pm
Anyone else feel like it would be ok if PCI express 3 broke compatability? Name it something else maybe but come one, these days the bulk of new mobo's/cpu's/high end cards are going to be purchased by enthusiasts willing to make an all at once sacrifice during the upgrade.
Most new computers will just use integrated and the users will be mostly happy with that. If they end up wanting to install a video card they can go buy a new gen PCI3 one.
I dont know about the rest of you but I feel kinda off about putting hardware more than 2-3 years old into a modern machine, with lower heat dissipation and power efficiency (and in the case of video cards DX specs for new games) always improving I'd hate to use an old card when new generation stuff gets cheap so fast.
Yeah yeah there will be some Ethernet and RAID card problems, but most of that is on systems that were designed to become legacy anyways.
Zoridon
November 19, 2010 at 6:46am
I'm all for PCIE 3.0, then if you run SLI / Crossfire and it splits lanes to 8x / 8x your get the same bandwidth of PCIE 2.0 with 16 lanes. Ever think of that?
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