Will there be PCI to PCI-E adapters?
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blakerwry
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I know there are adapters within PCI express.. for example an x16 to x1 adapter... x16 to x8, etc... even infiniband to PCI-E... but I have not seen a PCI to PCI-E adapter.
My guess is that you'll see them mixed for awhile and then PCI will be limited to maybe 1 or 2 slots at the bottom of the mobo and then eventually disapear.
Atleast it'll be around longer than AGP.
My guess is that you'll see them mixed for awhile and then PCI will be limited to maybe 1 or 2 slots at the bottom of the mobo and then eventually disapear.
Atleast it'll be around longer than AGP.
sechs
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Are we talking about physical adapters or bridge adapters?
PCI-E is already setup to bridge to standard PCI slots (should the implementer so choose). I expect to see mixed-slot monsters to come out first.
A physical adapter would probably be more effort than its worth.
PCI-E is already setup to bridge to standard PCI slots (should the implementer so choose). I expect to see mixed-slot monsters to come out first.
A physical adapter would probably be more effort than its worth.
I was thinking about a physical adapter with a bridge chip within it...something along the lines of an Abit serillel type thingy .... only in this case it would be PCI card into adapter -> adapter into PCI-E slot.
Something along what was shown in an Anandtech article a while back.
sechs
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Given the space limitations, I don't think that a physical adapter is very feasible.
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Dïscfärm said:
...for the vendors wanting to unload all their AGP product as they transition over to PCI Express 16x. In other words, an APG slot on a PCI Express chipset'd mobo.
I'd certainly hope not, but we might even see some really ugly examples of this sort of thing coming out of Taiwan for a few months late this year into next, where a PCI Express chipset'd mobo has an AGP slot alongwith a few parallel PCI slots, but no PCI Express expansions slots. Ugg.
Yeah, now that I think about it, if it isn't a low profile PCI card to begin with, then getting the bracket to fit in the back of a case's expansion slots would be next to impossible with pretty much anything but the most tiny of adapters ..... but I won't rule out the possiblity of someone devising an ingeniously engineered solutionsechs said:
