Re: New Motherboards ECC memory and PCI-E issues

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:08:34 +1100, "Peter D." <p13@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

jimomuraNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:17:12 -0600, Kevin Snodgrass
<kdsnodgrass@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

jimomuraNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

.. . .

"[Card\Slot] x1 Slot x4 Slot x8 Slot x16 Slot

No mention of x2 or x32? Oh well, Wikipedia is not authoritative.

No mention of x2 or x32 in the article, and I would be surprised
if a later revision of the spec created them. The x4 slot is
is physically not that much bigger than the x1 slot, so there
would not be much cost saving. From an electrical perspective,
likewise. If anything, I would expect the x8 slot disappear,
making it a less complex situation. Ironic when you consider
that I said before that the committee seemed to be expecting
the x8 socket to be the most common size.

[snip]
3. Not mentioned yet is that the most recent
PCI-E spec has doubled the speed of PCI-e slots,
[snip]

What are they going to call these, x1x2, x4x2, x8x2 and x16x2?

I do not know. And I have to wait for someone else to publish
something reliable to read. The only way for me to read the real
spec is to join the Org, which would cost me about $3,000 US.
Just to read the docs? What a nice "open" specification.

Thanks for the review.

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