What is PCI Express?

urb1972 · 24-09-2005, 04:13 PM

Matt555 · 24-09-2005, 03:15 PM

its a new form of connector on your motherboard to replace AGP, it has a bigger bandwidth and is used in new high-end cards, slowly AGP will be phased out but for now companies are still making cards for them.
PCI-e x16 is used for graphics cards, and there are some motherboards that come with PCI-e 1x or 4x for sound cards etc.
nVidias SLI technology and ATI's Crossfire use PCI-e on motherboards.

pelvis_3 · 24-09-2005, 03:17 PM

THIS should explain it!

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Matt555 iMod Join Date: May 2005 Age: 21 Male Posts: 3,844 Times Helpful: 238 My Mood: Happy Status: Offline My Computer	its a new form of connector on your motherboard to replace AGP, it has a bigger bandwidth and is used in new high-end cards, slowly AGP will be phased out but for now companies are still making cards for them. PCI-e x16 is used for graphics cards, and there are some motherboards that come with PCI-e 1x or 4x for sound cards etc. nVidias SLI technology and ATI's Crossfire use PCI-e on motherboards. __________________

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