Athlon64 MB w/ PCI-E

[Jagercola]

Ok, after reading about the future potential of PCI-E and upgrades down the road (specifically video cards), I saw that intel is starting to churn out some PCI-E boards. I would expect AMD to be on the edge to as it has been with 64-bit computing. Much to my dismay, I can't find any sign of any boards coming out soon for Socket 939 with Pci Express. What gives? Why is AMD loafing? When will they jump on the performance bandwagon?

 

[Vette73]

AMD does not make boards and the only chipset they make is for servers/workststions.


The biggest reason, there are still no PCI-e cards out in great quantities. Also if you have read reviews the PCI-e cards are slowwer then AGP versions of the same card. The drivers for PCI-e are early and the opnly company to have a PCI-e port out right now is Intel and they are already recalling some of the chips and the chipsets are lower performance.

So maybe VIA, Sis, Nivida, etc... are taking their time to get a GOOD product out, not like intels blunder.

 

[JackHawksmoor]

I don't think Intel blundered (aside from apperently letting supposedly a few bad chips into the market). There just isn't any performance benefit to PCIe's extra bandwidth. I'm not sure if there's a performance benefit yet to AGP8x