i7 860 vs. i5 750 -- Pci-e Battle

[HazardO]

More to the point the p55 platform gets pci-e 3 first. How is that going to be implemented?

Does this mean you will get the physical connection to run a pci-e 3 card but no extra bandwidth?

Pretty pointless bringing it out on the p55 platform first in that case.

A good explaination here btw if it hasn't already being posted:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i5-lynnfield,2379.html

PCIe 3 would be implemented in a new CPU, not the chipset. The only motherboard change required would be increasing the avaliable voltage for PCIe cards as the power budget will likely have doubled again.

As far as performance, PCIe3 is twice the speed of PCIe2, this means that the 2 8way slots on the lynfield platform will be able to provide the equivalent bandwidth of 2 16 way PCIe2 slots, (Or 2 32 way PCIe 1 slots if such a thing existed.)

With PCie3 on the LGA1156 platform, it would have the same PCIe bandwidth as an x58 platform without even changing the chipset. Now does it make sense?

 

[Greebo]

PCIe 3 would be implemented in a new CPU, not the chipset. The only motherboard change required would be increasing the avaliable voltage for PCIe cards as the power budget will likely have doubled again.

As far as performance, PCIe3 is twice the speed of PCIe2, this means that the 2 8way slots on the lynfield platform will be able to provide the equivalent bandwidth of 2 16 way PCIe2 slots, (Or 2 32 way PCIe 1 slots if such a thing existed.)

With PCie3 on the LGA1156 platform, it would have the same PCIe bandwidth as an x58 platform without even changing the chipset. Now does it make sense?

Yes thank you. So basically when pcie3 comes to the lynfield platform, if you get a new i5/i7 cpu you will get your bandwidth back as per the x58 rig is now?

Still requires a mobo/cpu though but I guess you would want to anyway to usb3 and sata3.