Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2012, 13:51:28 schrieb Pandu Poluan: > On Apr 11, 2012 1:15 PM, "Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 06:45:55PM +0100, Stroller wrote > > > > > I'm sceptical over the benefits of upgrading a 4 year old PC (short > > > of ripping most all the guts out and starting again). I know the > > > industry has currently settled on PCIe, but haven't bus speeds > > > increased in the last 4 years? Are all the latest cards compatible > > > with your Dell? If not, then you'll probably end up buying an older > > > model, and then that will be sub-optimal when you want to upgrade > > > your motherboard in a year's time. > > > > I've posted a snapshot of the Dell's internals on my ISP's personal > > > > webspace at http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/dell2.jpg Is > > the long black slot PCIe? What's the short black slot? > > The long black slot looks like PCIe. To be precise, PCIe x16. The short > black slot is PCIe x1, (originally) meant for low-bandwidth devices like a > fax modem.
oh so wrong. Even a single PCIe lane is faster than an entire PCI bus. More like SATA controllers, usb-3.0 controllers, high end sound cards. For slow crap you have usb. > > For games with huge 3D textures, absolutely. For video playback, not so > much. > em, just compare a 1080p with amd+working va-api backend in vlc and without. Huge difference. > But the main point would be that the newest graphics cards are all released > in PCIe version only, and future mobos will all support PCIe, so it's a > future-safe investment. and all current. Really, can you even get agp based boards anymore? agp is dead. PCI is as good as dead... , -- #163933
