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Ivy Bridge CPUs Feature PCI-Express 3.0

shaffaaf27 said:
I would say fair enough, but you did know that at one point pci compatibility would be dropped.
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Yes. Everything is expected to be dropped/changed at some point as advances in the technology are made over the years. It's no issue, I'd just sell it and go PCI-E if I had to.
 
As already stated PCI has been removed from the current 6 series chipsets already, some mobo makers have used bridge chips to allow for legacy PCI slots. I welcome this as it means you can have mainboard models with and with PCI.
 
PCI has been with us ever since 1993, you guys still want to hold onto it? :) It was introduced along with the Pentium 60 & 66MHz chips, then regarded as 80586 technology.

Boards that support PCI take up space that could otherwise be used for PCI-E slots. I know which I would rather prefer.

When PCI-E was first introduced in 2004 with Intel's 925X chipset it was very difficult to buy a PCI-E graphics card with anything more powerful than a Nvidia 6600GT almost nowhere to be seen. These days it's omnipresent, including NIC's, RAID cards, sound cards, video capture cards etc. I don't see a valid reason why PCI should remain, times must move on if we aren't to be haunted by our past every step of the way.
 
As said, PCI should be dead, so what, you have a pci card. I had an agp card, I sold that and got a PCI-E card, I sold a 754 cpu and got a 939, then some 775 setups, ddr 1, then 2, then 3. None of it stopped working, much was equivilent stuff, not massive upgrades. One mobo is the same as another but required for a CPU upgrade.

Thats life, PCI should have been killed 5 years ago, x86 is losing so much ground on architectures like ARM largely due to legacy support. The add so much power use and transistor count for stuff most people don't need but "has" to be there. Then the transistions between standards are taking half a decade instead of half a year. PCI, kill it move to pci-e totally and people would have made pci-e versions of every card quickly. because it took so long and PCI is still ruddy going, pci-e versions of things like network cards, soundcards, they didn't make the switch for years.

Same goes for 64bit windows, we should have been in a situation where XP got a 64bit transistional version and Vista was fully 64bit with the emulation mode for 32bit and companies would have been forced to jump all in with 64bit, then Win 7 could ditch 32bit drivers fully.

ARM is moving one generation to the next with large improvements largely due to it being fairly closed and having very little "baggage" at the moment.
 
Jokester said:
I use PCI for my soundcard, equivalent PCI-E sound cards needed a floppy (a floppy!!!!) power connector because they couldn't get enough power from the PCI-E slot.
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^ This is the exact reason i got a PCI soundcard, cant stand using a floppy connector >_<

That and the only PCI-E soundcard i used before this one was buggy as **** so i lost faith in it.
 
I would love for them to phase it out, but manufactors of sound cards, controller cards and other add ons are slow to go to PCIe, as most are still on PCI...

So one still needs like two just in case for the moment in time...IDE can go.

i don't really see the issue with that, you would happly plug extra power connectors to your graphics card/s ( like you have much choice :p) besides it gives use to a mostly unused connector :p

at the end of the day, yes we do need to move on, as with better connectivity they would become more capable over time of course
 
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