ill be upgrading soon but a little confused. to see the benefits of 16x pci-e, you need:
1)compatable motherboard
2)compatable CPU
3)compatable graphics card
4)compatable games
the O.S. - windows website clearly states xp is fully compatable with 16x pci-e (although when i hear VISTA will have "native" support for pci-e i wonder what that means).
the only bottleneck as far as i know right now are the games, which do not support it currently (except fear i think) - but wait... nvidia has SLI hacks for specific games that apparently force 16x pci-e (with SLI). i dont give a dam about SLI, and dont plan to upgrade to it, but can this not work for single-cards? it would be nice to actually see a present benefit from all these upgrades.
1)compatable motherboard
2)compatable CPU
3)compatable graphics card
4)compatable games
the O.S. - windows website clearly states xp is fully compatable with 16x pci-e (although when i hear VISTA will have "native" support for pci-e i wonder what that means).
the only bottleneck as far as i know right now are the games, which do not support it currently (except fear i think) - but wait... nvidia has SLI hacks for specific games that apparently force 16x pci-e (with SLI). i dont give a dam about SLI, and dont plan to upgrade to it, but can this not work for single-cards? it would be nice to actually see a present benefit from all these upgrades.