PCI x16 and PCI 2.0 / myLot

Romania

April 10, 2008 6:02am CST

Hi...i saw that some mother boards have PCI 2.0 slot...i also noticed that only the new and powerful video crads are on 2.0,so my question is: It's there a difference between PCI and PCI 2.0?

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chunter

@chunter (1758)

• Singapore

10 Apr 08

In PCIe 1.1 (currently the most common version) each lane sends information at a rate of 250 MB/s (250 million bytes per second) in each direction. PCIe 2.0 doubles this, emerging in late 2007, and is found on newer systems such as the Mac Pro. The latest proposed PCIe 3.0 standard will increase this further (scheduled for release around 2010) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

10tacl3

@10tacl3 (227)

• Romania

10 Apr 08

thanx man, now it's clearely for me :))