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Uh, in short: PCI Express doesn't bring any new value to contemporary
applications, they wouldn't use the extra bandwidth anyway. What PCI Express
does is that it allows a completely new breed of applications to be
developed which would be completely unthinkable due to performance reasons
in curreny bus architechtures on PC, such as AGP. In this light for the
first year or two PCI Express is something that developers will fall in love
with and the labours of love should be apparent 9 months later.
This is to say.. consumers shouldn't look forward to immediate benefits,
hardware still needs software to dance.
Uh, in short: PCI Express doesn't bring any new value to contemporary
applications, they wouldn't use the extra bandwidth anyway. What PCI Express
does is that it allows a completely new breed of applications to be
developed which would be completely unthinkable due to performance reasons
in curreny bus architechtures on PC, such as AGP. In this light for the
first year or two PCI Express is something that developers will fall in love
with and the labours of love should be apparent 9 months later.
This is to say.. consumers shouldn't look forward to immediate benefits,
hardware still needs software to dance.
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