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Reznor007

Reznor007

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PCI Express is the new add in card standard. It will be replacing PCI and AGP in the near future. It's not a "feature" really, it's the same difference as a PCI/AGP version of a card. You need a PCI Express motherboard to use it.
 
Stezo2k

Stezo2k

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Grant64 said:
so then if i had a PCIX motherboard it would support it and be better?
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Well if it says pcix support, it should support it yeah. PCI-X is suppost to be twice as fast as AGP (16X) so if it supports it, it should be faster
 
Allnatural

Allnatural

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Grant64 said:
Now, it says it has PCI express support? What doe this mean? does this mean in the future that it will fit a PCIX board???
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No. The AGP and PCIe ports are physically different, so you can't plug the same card into both ports. Looks like the site is using some double-speak to gain sales. Nvidia will release a PCIe version of the 6800, so you could argue that the chipset has PCIe support, but even that is a misnomer. The 6800 GPU doesn't natively support PCIe; Nvidia will be using a bridge chip on the PCIe cards. They claim it won't effect performance. We'll have to wait and see...
 
mezkal

mezkal

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Stezo2k said:
Well if it says pcix support, it should support it yeah. PCI-X is suppost to be twice as fast as AGP (16X) so if it supports it, it should be faster
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Just for clarity guys....PCI-X is not PCI-Express. PCI-X is 66mhz PCI BUS.

PCI-Express is abbreviated as PCI-e.

Cheers,
 
fivefeet8

fivefeet8

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The chipset on the gpu supports PCI-e, but if you bought an AGP version, then you won't be able to use it on a PCI-e only motherboard. I wouldn't worry about it much, unless you plan to buy 2 PCI-e 6800 ultra's and SLI them together. :santa:
 
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