Will PCI Express require a new motherboard?

[sirak]

Will PCI Express require a new motherboard? Just curious, thanks.

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[TheRod]

YES

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[Crashman]

Of course silly, a new slot requires a board that has it!

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[dhlucke]

You'll be fine just cramming the pci-ex card into either a USB port or an ISA slot.

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[dhlucke]

There are some unconfirmed reports that they will be selling pci-ex to mouse port adapters.

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[endyen]

So nvidia is not going ahead with the pci-ex/agp adaptor?

 

[Crashman]

Perhaps they will, but that would still be on the card itself, to convert a PCI-Ex chip signal to an AGP signal, so the card would be AGP, not PCI-Ex.

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[dhlucke]

I thought they were just going to have mb's with both pci-ex and agp so that you could use your old card.

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[HardWareBoss]

That would be to simple.

 

[davemar14]

That would make sense. Hmm, I want to upgrade my graphics card. Time to upgrade the whole computer, that is stupid. If they are only offering the new cards as PCI-X then they are hurting themselves. How many people are going to buy a new motherboard for a new graphics card.

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