some more details (old news?) about PPU.

[Cartoon Corpse]

credible?

http://www.warp2search.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25363


# PCI-Express
# 128MB memory
# $199
# Launch before Christmas this year
# Will have atleast 3 supporting titles

i thought it was gonna be plain pci. do most mboards have the slots for say an additional pci-e chip?

 

[PatrickL]

Yes pcie-e 1x slots

 

[wireframe]

credible?

No idea, but let's hope so.

i thought it was gonna be plain pci. do most mboards have the slots for say an additional pci-e chip?

This might be problematic for people with SLI. I don't know any mainboards off hand that can take an aditional PCIe card when used in SLI mode due to physical layout. Even with PCI you would be cramped as I believe the norm is two PCI slots on the far corner and surely one will be used for audio.

 

[Cartoon Corpse]

No idea, but let's hope so.


This might be problematic for people with SLI. I don't know any mainboards off hand that can take an aditional PCIe card when used in SLI mode due to physical layout. Even with PCI you would be cramped as I believe the norm is two PCI slots on the far corner and surely one will be used for audio.

that's what i was wondering. at least cramped.

 

[Guden Oden]

I've got my lone PCIe 1x slot ready and waiting for a PPU for months now. Hopefully this rumor will be true, I'd really hate having to wait even longer for a PCIe version than old crappy PCI...

 

[BRiT]

Yes pcie-e 1x slots

Indeed. I'm all out of PCI slots, but have plenty of PCI-Express...