Intel & Nvidia ELOPED! PCI Express to AMD?

[TeenPcknowit]

Two major computing companies elope.
http://www.nvidia.com/page/pci_express.html

After seeing this, the question on my mind is...Where is PCI Express headed!?
(PCI Express is also named *arrow*. It is developed by intel)

Will PCI express show up on AMD chipsets? Lord willing, but who knows what is going to happen with these two giants working together.

What about ATI? They annouced that they won't be making a PCI Express version of their X800, IS THIS INTEL/NVIDIA BUDDY SYSTEM WHY?

Will proprietary greed strike Intel in the gut? Look what happened to IBM with their ESIA bus. Never heard of it? No wonder. It was exclusive to IBM. IBM suffered, they learned their lesson. But will intel's PCI Express be the next EISA? Let us hope not.

Please post your facts/articles here.

[Tin]

PCI-E is supported by the nForce3 250 chipset, as well as the forthcoming nForce4 w/ SLI technology. nForce 4 will feature Soundstorm 2 as well as the SLI. SLI lets you run 2 PCI-E video cards at once, each card renders 1/2 the screen.

[TeenPcknowit]

I heard about the SLI. But not PCI-E support on the nForce chipset. Thank you for informing me. I was about to pop.

[Tin]

SLI will not work with AGP, because the way the AGP bus works, there can only be one display adaptor. SLI is PCI-E only. if intel wanted to horde PCI-E all for themselves...the would have done the same with PCI. if only intel had PCI...all of us AMD users would still be using ISA.

[imbest123]

Originally Posted by Tin Canary PCI-E is supported by the nForce3 250 chipset, as well as the forthcoming nForce4 w/ SLI technology. nForce 4 will feature Soundstorm 2 as well as the SLI. SLI lets you run 2 PCI-E video cards at once, each card renders 1/2 the screen.

Its more somewhere along the lines of 60/40 because the bottom half of most games have the most detail.

[TeenPcknowit]

Each card gets half of the screen to pump to......maximum pc says so...

[Tin]

i believe imbest is right....because for SLI...on card occupies a PCI-E x16 slot and the other card uses a PCI-E x4 slot.

[ric449]

Originally Posted by TeenPcknowit Each card gets half of the screen to pump to......maximum pc says so...

PC Magazines have a habit of oversimplifying things, I always find the best information is on the internet.

[TeenPcknowit]

Originally Posted by ric449 PC Magazines have a habit of oversimplifying things, I always find the best information is on the internet.

Not maximum pc. They are uber nerds. I'll try ot get the exact quote from them if i can...

[imbest123]

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/gra...nvidia-02.html This way even makes more sense so im pretty sure its the way i said.

[TeenPcknowit]

Very cool. Thank you.

[TeenPcknowit]

Turns out that was the fabled Alienware Gfx card array that used half n' half.
Well...to this date pci-e isn't on the nforce.....when the heck is nforce 4 comming out?

[TwoRails]

It's out now, and in the Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe.

[kram 2.0]

Note date of first post.

kram

[Yuanji]

nVidia's SLi can work a couple of ways. the 2 most common are where each card gets equal load trying to render a part of the screen each. the other is each card renders every other frame. some games perform better on one and some better on the other.

[TeenPcknowit]

Originally Posted by TwoRails It's out now, and in the Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe.

Sweet, thanks for update.

[spyder003]

Originally Posted by Tin Canary on card occupies a PCI-E x16 slot and the other card uses a PCI-E x4 slot.

The way I understand it, a jumper is thrown on the board when SLi is enabled so that each card uses 8 PCI-E lanes instead of one card using 16. There are only 20 available lanes. If that was true, x1 cards wouldn't work.

[Yuanji]

where is the famed PCI Express x32 interface that was promised when the technology first surfaced?

[TeenPcknowit]

Originally Posted by Yuanji where is the famed PCI Express x32 interface that was promised when the technology first surfaced?

I didn't know a x32 was promissed! I heard about x16,x8, x4, x1.

[TwoRails]

Originally Posted by kram8806 Note date of first post.

Maybe I should have included the post I was responding to, which was less than an hour ago.

[TeenPcknowit]

Originally Posted by TwoRails Maybe I should have included the post I was responding to, which was less than an hour ago.

Just read in maximum pc that nForce....yes...the nForce chipset is going to Intel... I knew those two bugs in a rug were getting friendlier, next system I buidl is gunna be a nForce-pentium babay ^__^. Oh...but the nForce chipset for intel isn't going to go to the 478slot Proc. Only the new LGA 775.

[Yuanji]

nforce5 is supposedly able to reach 350+FSB no problem whereas the 925X chipset starts to die out it's functions around 330FSB

[imbest123]

This thread is from july of 2004. umm i think people shoudl stop posting on it.

[TeenPcknowit]

Originally Posted by imbest123 This thread is from july of 2004. umm i think people shoudl stop posting on it.

I knoooooooooooow, but everything that has to do with intel/nvidia I post here...I'de almost rather do this than create a whole new thread, but if thats what yuh want, I can do.

....starting now.......I hope...

[TwoRails]

Originally Posted by imbest123 This thread is from july of 2004. umm i think people shoudl stop posting on it.

Why? The original questions are still current and the answers are still evolving and on going....

[Panama Red]

Originally Posted by TwoRails Why? The original questions are still current and the answers are still evolving and on going....

I agree. Might even recommend a sticky. Althought it probably needs to be moved to the Video area.