PCI-E 2.0 and P35

[Participant]

Grrr just when I think P35 will see me right for a few years I discover that PCI-E 2.0 is on the horizon!! Does anyone know when this will come in and whether or not P35 will support it, or is PCI-E 2.0 entirely different architecture etc?

P.S. apologies this probably should have gone in either the motherboard or GPU forum.

 

[Participant]

So basically this will give graphics card retailers manufacturers another excuse to overcharge for a useless feature!

We're saying then that when PCI-E 2.0 graphics cards appear on the market they'll be fine with PCI-E 1.1 boards, but may eventually be bottlenecked by the PCI-E 1.1 bus once the requirements hit that limit?

 

[Participant]

...I have

But at the end of the day if I wait for X38 boards I'll be paying more for PCI-E 2.0 which I don't and won't need since I only game at 1440*900, plus there'll be something else around the corner to hang on for, it's a never-ending game. A new hard drive specification will no doubt be out by then

Put it this way - I've got until PCI-E 2.0 cards hit the 1.1 bottleneck, which will hopefully be another year at least!

 

[Participant]

Found this link, which makes me feel better: http://www.tweaktown.com/news/7552/index.html.

It's a gamer's chipset and has things that I will never need e.g. dual x16 PCI-E slots. The extra power is irrelevant as said since most cards will need an extra power connector anyway. The bandwidth of PCI-E1.1 won't be the bottleneck for years yet (I infer from the language) and so that's not a factor either. Finally X38 is DDR3 only! So I feel P35 is still the best option rather than waiting for this chipset, boards of which will be v expensive especially when you factor in the memory.