On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 02:27:20 -0500
Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> By the way, a couple of hackers have suggested to me that PCI-Express
> should come before PCI or AGP. I have my doubts about that, I've got
> about 8 machines here that can take a PCI card and zero that have
> PCI-E. PCI-E motherboards out now seem to have only a single 16X plus
> two 1X slots, so this gets in the way of multihead support unless it's
> a 1X card. Which wouldn't be that bad a match for the card's 2D/3D
> drawing capabilities, actually, but it still doesn't sound good. On
> the other hand, these new motherboards all have two or more PCI slots.
> This is all by way of saying that starting out with PCI does seem like
> a good decision, and could even be seen as a feature: it will be a hit
> with dual- and triple-head hardcore geeks, of which there is no
> shortage.
I agree with this. Leaving out PCI is not a good idea.
Especialy as PCI will be the main bus for small and embedded applications.
(think about PC-104 with PCI extension).
Though PCI itself is a must, i dunno which one to choose of AGP
and PCI-E. It can be already seen, that AGP will die in quite a
few years, but then again, PCI-E isn't yet established.
Whether the card is PCI-E 16x or 1x doesn't matter much, as,
if i understood the standard correctly, every card should be
able to support any number of serial connections below it's
maximum.
But i guess this decission will rather depend on what the FPGA
can do (It need's special structures to support the 2GHz bitstream
or you'd waste too much space).
Attila Kinali
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