XPS400

[EvanAdams]

been looking at XPS400s and notice they have:

1 PCIe x1
1 PCIe x4
1 PCIe x16

What good does that do anyone? We have PCIe Gfx cards and Physics accelerators for two of those slots but what good is the 3rd. You cant do SLI in a non SLI mobo. Just wondering if there are PCIe stuff out there other than the Gfx and Physics cards?

 

[KeithTalent]

I thought the Ageia physics was PCI?

 

[EvanAdams]

They'll have a PPU board with AGEIA's chip on the market in the fourth quarter of this year, with 128MB of GDDR3 memory, for roughly $249 to $299. Initially, it will only come only in a PCI card, with PCIe cards expected further in the future.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1817922,00.asp

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: EvanAdams

They'll have a PPU board with AGEIA's chip on the market in the fourth quarter of this year, with 128MB of GDDR3 memory, for roughly $249 to $299. Initially, it will only come only in a PCI card, with PCIe cards expected further in the future.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1817922,00.asp

Ah, so we are both right then 😉

 

[akshayt]

creative x fi sound cards are pci e as well, right?

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: akshayt
creative x fi sound cards are pci e as well, right?

no

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: PurdueRy

Originally posted by: akshayt
creative x fi sound cards are pci e as well, right?

no

One of the many retarded decisions by Creaptive.

 

[EvanAdams]

after looking it looks like there are some network cards that use pci-e. I never think about how some people require high bandwidth networks for their jobs.