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On newegg the says it has 2 PCI express 2.0 x16 slots.The says it has 2 PCI express 2.0 x16 slots (x16, x4)The says it has 3 PCI express 2.0 x16 slots (x16/0 or x8/x8, x4)I've been looking on google, and there seems to be a slight difference in performance between PCI express 2.0 x4, PCI express 2.0 x8 and PCI express 2.0 x16, but in the pictures all of the PCI 2.0 express slots look identical. I don't understand why there would be any difference at all between them if they look identical. How would I even know which one is a PCI express 2.0 x4 or PCI express 2.0 x16? Ok, the PCIe xXX is the amount of lanes the slot has. So x16 has 16 lanes, x8 has 8 lanes and so on.The physical slot on x4, x8, and x16 are all the same.If it says 2 PCIe x16 slots it means that there are 2 slots on the board that are capable of 16 lanes.If it says 2 PCIe X16 (and then in brackets says x16, x4 or x8, x8) it means when you have 1 slot being used it uses all 16 lanes for that 1 slot. But if you plug multiple things into the PCIe slots (most common 2 GPU's) it will divide the lanes between the cards. So that (x16, x4) you will have the first GPU running with 16 lanes, and the second GPU running with 4 lanes.The manual for any board is going to say what the slot is at natively (x16, x8, x4) and how it reacts if in SLI (multiple GPU's)For GPU's most of the time you are not going to notice a difference between 16x and 8x because GPU's can not fully saturate the bandwidth of the slot, therefore it is hardware limited, not bus limited.2 GPU's in xfire / SLI on 2 8x slots will not fully saturate the bus.
HP Notebook PCs - Driver for SM Bus Controller in Windows This document pertains to HP and Compaq Notebook computers. When you upgrade or change the Windows operating system to a different version of Windows than was originally installed on your computer, you may have an issue with the SM Bus Controller not installing correctly. PCI Express. Gen3 Receiver Return Loss May Exceed Specifications Problem: The PCIe Base Specification includes a graph that sets requirements for maximum receiver return loss versus frequency.
Hardware limited means that the amount of data passed is limited by how fast / how much data the hardware can put out, not the pipeline you are trying to put it through.A GTX 590 (dual GPU) card, which is the most powerful card available on the market barely fully saturates a PCIe 2.0 x8 bus.That means that even though the card is maxing out it's potential, the bus (assuming x16) still has 7 lanes still available. Which means that the hardware is only using 50% available bandwidth.So when I say hardware limited instead of bus limited I am merely stating that the bus (in this case PCIe 2.0) is nowhere close to being a limiting factor for any hardware currently in production. I found this article right after posting. It states pretty similar results using older technology.
I think thos individuals that move video cards over to faster CPU's from older systems with X16 to new ones with X8 probably see slight increases in frame rates only because the processing upgrade slightly outweighs the loss from the slower pipelines. Regardless, I am going to stick with my two X16 lanes for now. I think that moving to a sandy bridge i5 2500k from my i7 950 will only slow my gaming down unless I dish out big money for another board that does 2 X 16X. And if I am going to spend that kind of money I might as well get an i7. Boy how things start adding up.
I'll just wait a while yet.
. PCI Express ×4. PCI Express ×16. PCI Express ×1. PCI Express ×16. (32-bit, 5 V)PCI Express ( Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe or PCI-e, is a high-speed standard, designed to replace the older, and bus standards.
It is the common interface for personal computers', and hardware connections. PCIe has numerous improvements over the older standards, including higher maximum system bus throughput, lower I/O pin count and smaller physical footprint, better performance scaling for bus devices, a more detailed error detection and reporting mechanism (Advanced Error Reporting, AER ), and native functionality. More recent revisions of the PCIe standard provide hardware support for.Defined by its number of lanes, the PCI Express electrical interface is also used in a variety of other standards, most notably the expansion card interface and computer storage interfaces, (SFF-8639) and.Format specifications are maintained and developed by the (PCI ), a group of more than 900 companies that also maintain the specifications. A PCI Express ×1 card containing a PCI Express switch (covered by a small ), which creates multiple endpoints out of one endpoint and allows it to be shared by multiple devicesConceptually, the PCI Express bus is a high-speed replacement of the older PCI/PCI-X bus.
One of the key differences between the PCI Express bus and the older PCI is the bus topology; PCI uses a shared architecture, in which the PCI host and all devices share a common set of address, data and control lines. In contrast, PCI Express is based on point-to-point, with separate links connecting every device to the (host). Because of its shared bus topology, access to the older PCI bus is arbitrated (in the case of multiple masters), and limited to one master at a time, in a single direction. Furthermore, the older PCI clocking scheme limits the bus clock to the slowest peripheral on the bus (regardless of the devices involved in the bus transaction). In contrast, a PCI Express bus link supports full-duplex communication between any two endpoints, with no inherent limitation on concurrent access across multiple endpoints.In terms of bus protocol, PCI Express communication is encapsulated in packets. The work of packetizing and de-packetizing data and status-message traffic is handled by the transaction layer of the PCI Express port (described later).
Radical differences in electrical signaling and bus protocol require the use of a different mechanical form factor and expansion connectors (and thus, new motherboards and new adapter boards); PCI slots and PCI Express slots are not interchangeable. At the software level, PCI Express preserves with PCI; legacy PCI system software can detect and configure newer PCI Express devices without explicit support for the PCI Express standard, though new PCI Express features are inaccessible.The PCI Express link between two devices can vary in size from one to 32. In a multi-lane link, the packet data is striped across lanes, and peak data throughput scales with the overall link width. The lane count is automatically negotiated during device initialization, and can be restricted by either endpoint. For example, a single-lane PCI Express (×1) card can be inserted into a multi-lane slot (×4, ×8, etc.), and the initialization cycle auto-negotiates the highest mutually supported lane count.
The link can dynamically down-configure itself to use fewer lanes, providing a failure tolerance in case bad or unreliable lanes are present. The PCI Express standard defines link widths of ×1, ×2, ×4, ×8, ×12, ×16 and ×32.: 4,5 This allows the PCI Express bus to serve both cost-sensitive applications where high throughput is not needed, and performance-critical applications such as 3D graphics, networking ( or multiport ), and enterprise storage ( or ). Slots and connectors are only defined for a subset of these widths, with link widths in between using the next larger physical slot size.As a point of reference, a PCI-X (133 MHz 64-bit) device and a PCI Express 1.0 device using four lanes (×4) have roughly the same peak single-direction transfer rate of 1064 MB/s. The PCI Express bus has the potential to perform better than the PCI-X bus in cases where multiple devices are transferring data simultaneously, or if communication with the PCI Express peripheral is.Interconnect. A PCI Express link between two devices consists of one or more lanes, which are channels using two pairs.: 3PCI Express devices communicate via a logical connection called an interconnect or link. A link is a point-to-point communication channel between two PCI Express ports allowing both of them to send and receive ordinary PCI requests (configuration, I/O or memory read/write) and (, ).
At the physical level, a link is composed of one or more lanes. Low-speed peripherals (such as an ) use a single-lane (×1) link, while a graphics adapter typically uses a much wider and therefore faster 16-lane (×16) link.Lane A lane is composed of two pairs, with one pair for receiving data and the other for transmitting. Thus, each lane is composed of four wires. Conceptually, each lane is used as a, transporting data packets in eight-bit 'byte' format simultaneously in both directions between endpoints of a link. Physical PCI Express links may contain from one to 32 lanes, more precisely 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 16 or 32 lanes.: 4,5 Lane counts are written with an '×' prefix (for example, '×8' represents an eight-lane card or slot), with ×16 being the largest size in common use. Lane sizes are also referred to via the terms 'width' or 'by' e.g., an eight-lane slot could be referred to as a 'by 8' or as '8 lanes wide.'
For mechanical card sizes, see.Serial bus. This section does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged. ( March 2018) The bonded serial bus architecture was chosen over the traditional parallel bus because of inherent limitations of the latter, including operation, excess signal count, and inherently lower due to. Timing skew results from separate electrical signals within a parallel interface traveling through conductors of different lengths, on potentially different (PCB) layers, and at possibly different. Despite being transmitted simultaneously as a single, signals on a parallel interface have different travel duration and arrive at their destinations at different times.
When the interface clock period is shorter than the largest time difference between signal arrivals, recovery of the transmitted word is no longer possible. Since timing skew over a parallel bus can amount to a few nanoseconds, the resulting bandwidth limitation is in the range of hundreds of megahertz.A serial interface does not exhibit timing skew because there is only one differential signal in each direction within each lane, and there is no external clock signal since clocking information is embedded within the serial signal itself. As such, typical bandwidth limitations on serial signals are in the multi-gigahertz range. PCI Express is one example of the general trend toward replacing parallel buses with serial interconnects; other examples include (SATA), (SAS), (IEEE 1394),. In digital video, examples in common use are, and.Multichannel serial design increases flexibility with its ability to allocate fewer lanes for slower devices.Form factors PCI Express (standard). Intel P3608 NVMe flash SSD, PCI-E add-in cardA PCI Express card fits into a slot of its physical size or larger (with ×16 as the largest used), but may not fit into a smaller PCI Express slot; for example, a ×16 card may not fit into a ×4 or ×8 slot. Some slots use open-ended sockets to permit physically longer cards and negotiate the best available electrical and logical connection.The number of lanes actually connected to a slot may also be fewer than the number supported by the physical slot size.
An example is a ×16 slot that runs at ×4, which will accept any ×1, ×2, ×4, ×8 or ×16 card, but provides only four lanes. Its specification may read as '×16 (×4 mode)', while '×size @ ×speed' notation ('×16 @ ×4') is also common. The advantage is that such slots can accommodate a larger range of PCI Express cards without requiring motherboard hardware to support the full transfer rate.
Standard mechanical sizes are ×1, ×4, ×8, and ×16. Cards with a differing number of lanes need to use the next larger mechanical size (ie. A ×2 card uses the ×4 size, or a ×12 card uses the ×16 size).The cards themselves are designed and manufactured in various sizes. For example, (SSDs) that come in the form of PCI Express cards often use (half height, half length) and (full height, half length) to describe the physical dimensions of the card. PCI TypeDimensions (mm)Dimensions (in)Full-Length PCI Card107 mm (height) × 312 mm (long)4.21 in (height) × 12.28 in (long)Half-Length PCI Card106.68 mm (height) × 175.26 mm (long)4.2 in (height) × 6.9 in (long)Low-Profile/ Slim PCI Card64.41 mm (height) × 119.91–167.64 mm (long)2.54 in (height) × 4.72–6.59 in (long)Non-standard form factors are common However, modern usually exceed the height as well as thickness specified in the PCI Express standard, due to the need for better and quieter. Modern computer cases are often wider to accommodate these taller cards, but not always. Since full-length cards (312 mm) are uncommon, modern cases sometimes cannot fit those.
The thickness of these cards also typically occupies the space of 3 PCIe slots. In fact, even the methodolgy of how to measure the cards varies between vendors, with some including the metal bracket size in dimensions and others not.For instance, a recent card measures 135 mm in height (excluding the metal bracket), which exceeds the PCIe standard height by 28 mm. Another card by measures 55 mm thick, taking up nearly 3 PCIe slots.
Pinout The following table identifies the conductors on each side of the on a PCI Express card. The solder side of the (PCB) is the A side, and the component side is the B side. PRSNT1# and PRSNT2# pins must be slightly shorter than the rest, to ensure that a hot-plugged card is fully inserted. The WAKE# pin uses full voltage to wake the computer, but must be from the standby power to indicate that the card is wake capable. 8-pin (left) and 6-pin (right) used on PCI Express cardsAll PCI express cards may consume up to 3 at +3.3 ( 9.9 ). MiniPCI and MiniPCI Express cards in comparisonPCI Express Mini Card (also known as Mini PCI Express, Mini PCIe, Mini PCI-E, mPCIe, and PEM), based on PCI Express, is a replacement for the form factor.
It is developed by the. The host device supports both PCI Express and 2.0 connectivity, and each card may use either standard.
Most laptop computers built after 2005 use PCI Express for expansion cards; however, as of 2015, many vendors are moving toward using the newer form factor for this purpose.Due to different dimensions, PCI Express Mini Cards are not physically compatible with standard full-size PCI Express slots; however, passive adapters exist that allow them to be used in full-size slots. Physical dimensions Dimensions of PCI Express Mini Cards are 30 × 50.95 mm (width × length) for a Full Mini Card. There is a 52-pin, consisting of two staggered rows on a 0.8 mm pitch. Each row has eight contacts, a gap equivalent to four contacts, then a further 18 contacts. Have a thickness of 1.0 mm, excluding the components.
Main article:The new version of Mini PCI express, M.2 replaces the mSATA standard. Computer bus interfaces provided through the M.2 connector are PCI Express 3.0 (up to four lanes), Serial ATA 3.0, and USB 3.0 (a single logical port for each of the latter two). It is up to the manufacturer of the M.2 host or device to select which interfaces are to be supported, depending on the desired level of host support and device type.PCI Express External Cabling PCI Express External Cabling (also known as External PCI Express, Cabled PCI Express, or ePCIe) specifications were released by the in February 2007.Standard cables and connectors have been defined for ×1, ×4, ×8, and ×16 link widths, with a transfer rate of 250 MB/s per lane. The PCI-SIG also expects the norm will evolve to reach 500 MB/s, as in PCI Express 2.0. An example of the uses of Cabled PCI Express is a metal enclosure, containing a number of PCIe slots and PCIe-to-ePCIe adapter circuitry.
This device would not be possible had it not been for the ePCIe spec.PCI Express OCuLink OCuLink (standing for 'optical-copper link', since Cu is the for ) is an extension for the 'cable version of PCI Express', acting as a competitor to version 3 of the Thunderbolt interface. ^ In each direction (each lane is a dual simplex channel). Initially, 25.0 GT/s was also considered for technical feasibility.PCI Express 1.0a In 2003, PCI-SIG introduced PCIe 1.0a, with a per-lane data rate of 250 MB/s and a of 2.5 gigatransfers per second (GT/s). Transfer rate is expressed in transfers per second instead of bits per second because the number of transfers includes the overhead bits, which do not provide additional throughput; PCIe 1.x uses an scheme, resulting in a 20% (= 2/10) overhead on the raw channel bandwidth. PCI Express 1.1 In 2005, PCI-SIG introduced PCIe 1.1. This updated specification includes clarifications and several improvements, but is fully compatible with PCI Express 1.0a. No changes were made to the data rate.PCI Express 2.0.
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A PCI Express 2.0 expansion card that provides USB 3.0 connectivity.announced the availability of the PCI Express Base 2.0 specification on 15 January 2007. The PCIe 2.0 standard doubles the transfer rate compared with PCIe 1.0 to 5 GT/s and the per-lane throughput rises from 250 MB/s to 500 MB/s. Consequently, a 32-lane PCIe connector (×32) can support an aggregate throughput of up to 16 GB/s.PCIe 2.0 motherboard slots are fully with PCIe v1.x cards. PCIe 2.0 cards are also generally backward compatible with PCIe 1.x motherboards, using the available bandwidth of PCI Express 1.1.
Overall, graphic cards or motherboards designed for v2.0 will work with the other being v1.1 or v1.0a.The PCI-SIG also said that PCIe 2.0 features improvements to the point-to-point data transfer protocol and its software architecture.' S first PCIe 2.0 capable chipset was the and boards began to ship from various vendors (, ) as of October 21, 2007. AMD started supporting PCIe 2.0 with its and nVidia started with the. All of Intel's prior chipsets, including the chipset, supported PCIe 1.1 or 1.0a.Like 1.x, PCIe 2.0 uses an scheme, therefore delivering, per-lane, an effective 4 Gbit/s max transfer rate from its 5 GT/s raw data rate.PCI Express 2.1 PCI Express 2.1 (with its specification dated March 4, 2009) supports a large proportion of the management, support, and troubleshooting systems planned for full implementation in PCI Express 3.0. However, the speed is the same as PCI Express 2.0. The increase in power from the slot breaks backward compatibility between PCI Express 2.1 cards and some older motherboards with 1.0/1.0a, but most motherboards with PCI Express 1.1 connectors are provided with a BIOS update by their manufacturers through utilities to support backward compatibility of cards with PCIe 2.1.PCI Express 3.0 PCI Express 3.0 Base specification revision 3.0 was made available in November 2010, after multiple delays.
In August 2007, PCI-SIG announced that PCI Express 3.0 would carry a bit rate of 8 per second (GT/s), and that it would be backward compatible with existing PCI Express implementations. At that time, it was also announced that the final specification for PCI Express 3.0 would be delayed until Q2 2010. An open-end PCI Express ×1 connector, allowing longer cards capable of using more lanes to be plugged while operating at ×1 speedsThe PCIe Physical Layer ( PHY, PCIEPHY, PCI Express PHY, or PCIe PHY) specification is divided into two sub-layers, corresponding to electrical and logical specifications. The logical sublayer is sometimes further divided into a MAC sublayer and a PCS, although this division is not formally part of the PCIe specification. A specification published by Intel, the PHY Interface for PCI Express (PIPE), defines the MAC/PCS functional partitioning and the interface between these two sub-layers. The PIPE specification also identifies the physical media attachment (PMA) layer, which includes the and other analog circuitry; however, since SerDes implementations vary greatly among vendors, PIPE does not specify an interface between the PCS and PMA.At the electrical level, each lane consists of two unidirectional operating at 2.5, 5, 8 or 16 /s, depending on the negotiated capabilities.
Transmit and receive are separate differential pairs, for a total of four data wires per lane.A connection between any two PCIe devices is known as a link, and is built up from a collection of one or more lanes. All devices must minimally support single-lane (×1) link. Devices may optionally support wider links composed of 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, or 32 lanes. This allows for very good compatibility in two ways:. A PCIe card physically fits (and works correctly) in any slot that is at least as large as it is (e.g., an ×1 sized card will work in any sized slot);. A slot of a large physical size (e.g., ×16) can be wired electrically with fewer lanes (e.g., ×1, ×4, ×8, or ×12) as long as it provides the ground connections required by the larger physical slot size.In both cases, PCIe negotiates the highest mutually supported number of lanes. Many graphics cards, motherboards and versions are verified to support ×1, ×4, ×8 and ×16 connectivity on the same connection.Even though the two would be signal-compatible, it is not usually possible to place a physically larger PCIe card (e.g., a ×16 sized card) into a smaller slot – though if the PCIe slots are altered or a riser is used most motherboards will allow this.
The width of a PCIe connector is 8.8 mm, while the height is 11.25 mm, and the length is variable. The fixed section of the connector is 11.65 mm in length and contains two rows of 11 (22 pins total), while the length of the other section is variable depending on the number of lanes. The pins are spaced at 1 mm intervals, and the thickness of the card going into the connector is 1.6 mm. Data transmission PCIe sends all control messages, including interrupts, over the same links used for data. The serial protocol can never be blocked, so latency is still comparable to conventional PCI, which has dedicated interrupt lines.Data transmitted on multiple-lane links is interleaved, meaning that each successive byte is sent down successive lanes. The PCIe specification refers to this interleaving as data striping.
While requiring significant hardware complexity to synchronize (or ) the incoming striped data, striping can significantly reduce the latency of the n th byte on a link. While the lanes are not tightly synchronized, there is a limit to the lane to lane skew of 20/8/6 ns for 2.5/5/8 GT/s so the hardware buffers can re-align the striped data. Due to padding requirements, striping may not necessarily reduce the latency of small data packets on a link.As with other high data rate serial transmission protocols, the clock is in the signal.
At the physical level, PCI Express 2.0 utilizes the scheme (line code) to ensure that strings of consecutive identical digits (zeros or ones) are limited in length. This coding was used to prevent the receiver from losing track of where the bit edges are. In this coding scheme every eight (uncoded) payload bits of data are replaced with 10 (encoded) bits of transmit data, causing a 20% overhead in the electrical bandwidth.
To improve the available bandwidth, PCI Express version 3.0 instead uses 128b/130b encoding with. 128b/130b encoding relies on the scrambling to limit the run length of identical-digit strings in data streams and ensure the receiver stays synchronised to the transmitter. It also reduces (EMI) by preventing repeating data patterns in the transmitted data stream.Data link layer The data link layer performs three vital services for the PCIe express link:. sequence the transaction layer packets (TLPs) that are generated by the transaction layer,. ensure reliable delivery of TLPs between two endpoints via an acknowledgement protocol ( and signaling) that explicitly requires replay of unacknowledged/bad TLPs,. initialize and manage flow control creditsOn the transmit side, the data link layer generates an incrementing sequence number for each outgoing TLP.
It serves as a unique identification tag for each transmitted TLP, and is inserted into the header of the outgoing TLP. A 32-bit code (known in this context as Link CRC or LCRC) is also appended to the end of each outgoing TLP.On the receive side, the received TLP's LCRC and sequence number are both validated in the link layer. If either the LCRC check fails (indicating a data error), or the sequence-number is out of range (non-consecutive from the last valid received TLP), then the bad TLP, as well as any TLPs received after the bad TLP, are considered invalid and discarded. The receiver sends a negative acknowledgement message (NAK) with the sequence-number of the invalid TLP, requesting re-transmission of all TLPs forward of that sequence-number. If the received TLP passes the LCRC check and has the correct sequence number, it is treated as valid. The link receiver increments the sequence-number (which tracks the last received good TLP), and forwards the valid TLP to the receiver's transaction layer.
An ACK message is sent to remote transmitter, indicating the TLP was successfully received (and by extension, all TLPs with past sequence-numbers.)If the transmitter receives a NAK message, or no acknowledgement (NAK or ACK) is received until a timeout period expires, the transmitter must retransmit all TLPs that lack a positive acknowledgement (ACK). Barring a persistent malfunction of the device or transmission medium, the link-layer presents a reliable connection to the transaction layer, since the transmission protocol ensures delivery of TLPs over an unreliable medium.In addition to sending and receiving TLPs generated by the transaction layer, the data-link layer also generates and consumes DLLPs, data link layer packets. ACK and NAK signals are communicated via DLLPs, as are some power management messages and flow control credit information (on behalf of the transaction layer).In practice, the number of in-flight, unacknowledged TLPs on the link is limited by two factors: the size of the transmitter's replay buffer (which must store a copy of all transmitted TLPs until the remote receiver ACKs them), and the flow control credits issued by the receiver to a transmitter. PCI Express requires all receivers to issue a minimum number of credits, to guarantee a link allows sending PCIConfig TLPs and message TLPs.Transaction layer PCI Express implements split transactions (transactions with request and response separated by time), allowing the link to carry other traffic while the target device gathers data for the response.PCI Express uses credit-based flow control. In this scheme, a device advertises an initial amount of credit for each received buffer in its transaction layer.
The device at theopposite end of the link, when sending transactions to this device, counts the number of credits each TLP consumes from its account. The sending device may only transmit a TLP when doing so does not make its consumed credit count exceed its credit limit. When the receiving device finishes processing the TLP from its buffer, it signals a return of credits to the sending device, which increases the credit limit by the restored amount.
The credit counters are modular counters, and the comparison of consumed credits to credit limit requires. The advantage of this scheme (compared to other methods such as wait states or handshake-based transfer protocols) is that the latency of credit return does not affect performance, provided that the credit limit is not encountered. This assumption is generally met if each device is designed with adequate buffer sizes.PCIe 1.x is often quoted to support a data rate of 250 MB/s in each direction, per lane. This figure is a calculation from the physical signaling rate (2.5 ) divided by the encoding overhead (10 bits per byte). This means a sixteen lane (×16) PCIe card would then be theoretically capable of 16×250 MB/s = 4 GB/s in each direction. While this is correct in terms of data bytes, more meaningful calculations are based on the usable data payload rate, which depends on the profile of the traffic, which is a function of the high-level (software) application and intermediate protocol levels.Like other high data rate serial interconnect systems, PCIe has a protocol and processing overhead due to the additional transfer robustness (CRC and acknowledgements).
Long continuous unidirectional transfers (such as those typical in high-performance storage controllers) can approach 95% of PCIe's raw (lane) data rate. These transfers also benefit the most from increased number of lanes (×2, ×4, etc.) But in more typical applications (such as a or controller), the traffic profile is characterized as short data packets with frequent enforced acknowledgements. This type of traffic reduces the efficiency of the link, due to overhead from packet parsing and forced interrupts (either in the device's host interface or the PC's CPU). Being a protocol for devices connected to the same, it does not require the same tolerance for transmission errors as a protocol for communication over longer distances, and thus, this loss of efficiency is not particular to PCIe.Applications. A -based controller, as a PCI Express ×1 cardPCI Express operates in consumer, server, and industrial applications, as a motherboard-level interconnect (to link motherboard-mounted peripherals), a passive backplane interconnect and as an interface for add-in boards.In virtually all modern (as of 2012 ) PCs, from consumer laptops and desktops to enterprise data servers, the PCIe bus serves as the primary motherboard-level interconnect, connecting the host system-processor with both integrated-peripherals (surface-mounted ICs) and add-on peripherals (expansion cards).
In most of these systems, the PCIe bus co-exists with one or more legacy PCI buses, for backward compatibility with the large body of legacy PCI peripherals.As of 2013 PCI Express has replaced as the default interface for graphics cards on new systems. Almost all models of released since 2010 by (ATI) and use PCI Express. Nvidia uses the high-bandwidth data transfer of PCIe for its (SLI) technology, which allows multiple graphics cards of the same chipset and model number to run in tandem, allowing increased performance. AMD has also developed a multi-GPU system based on PCIe called. AMD, Nvidia, and Intel have released motherboard chipsets that support as many as four PCIe ×16 slots, allowing tri-GPU and quad-GPU card configurations.Note that there are special power cables called PCI-e power cables which are required for high-end graphics cards.External GPUs Theoretically, external PCIe could give a notebook the graphics power of a desktop, by connecting a notebook with any PCIe desktop video card (enclosed in its own external housing, with a power supply and cooling); this is possible with an ExpressCard interface or a interface. The ExpressCard interface provides of 5 Gbit/s (0.5 GB/s throughput), whereas the Thunderbolt interface provides bit rates of up to 40 Gbit/s (5 GB/s throughput).In 2006, developed the external PCIe family of that can be used for advanced graphic applications for the professional market. These video cards require a PCI Express ×8 or ×16 slot for the host-side card which connects to the Plex via a carrying eight PCIe lanes.In 2008, AMD announced the technology, based on a proprietary cabling system that is compatible with PCIe ×8 signal transmissions.
This connector is available on the Fujitsu Amilo and the Acer Ferrari One notebooks. Fujitsu launched their AMILO GraphicBooster enclosure for XGP soon thereafter. Around 2010 Acer launched the Dynavivid graphics dock for XGP.In 2010 external card hubs were introduced that can connect to a laptop or desktop through a PCI ExpressCard slot. These hubs can accept full-sized graphics cards.
Examples include MSI GUS, Village Instrument's ViDock, the Asus, Bplus PE4H V3.2 adapter, as well as more improvised DIY devices. However such solutions are limited by the size (often only ×1) and version of the available PCIe slot on a laptop.Intel Thunderbolt interface has given opportunity to new and faster products to connect with a PCIe card externally.
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