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08-17-2005, 05:30 AM
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|  AGP is faster than PCI, but PCI-Express is faster than AGP and PCI.
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08-17-2005, 03:42 PM
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| It can be very confusing. There is another thing called PCI-X and its completely differnet to PCI-Express, even some retailers make this mistake.
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08-17-2005, 03:50 PM
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| PCI-X changes the protocol slightly and increases the data rate to 133MHz (peak transfer rate of 1066 MB/s) PCI-X 2.0 specifies a 266MHz rate (peak transfer rate of 2133 MB/s) and also 533MHz rate, expands the configuration space to 4096 bytes, adds a 16-bit bus variant and allows for 1.5 volt signalling Also, i saw a PCI-Express 4x Slot on a mobo.
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08-18-2005, 12:56 AM
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| Well, i saw a PCI-Express 4x on a motherboard along with 2 PCI-Express 16x (for SLI), several PCI-Express 1x and a few PCI. I suppose the 1x ones are for things like Network Cards, USB Cards and Firewire Cards. The 16x ones are for high end GPU's. So i spose the 4x one would be for stuff like high speed SATA raid cards that support a lot of drives in RAID so it needs more bandwidth.
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