Re: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2012, 13:51:28 schrieb Pandu Poluan:
> On Apr 11, 2012 1:15 PM, "Walter Dnes" <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...
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