Guest Grim Reaper Posted December 9, 2003 Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 VIA's first PCI Express chipset will sample next month, the company said today. And its rival Taiwanese chipset maker, SiS, will same one in January, too. The VIA PT890 is a Pentium 4 part, running an 800MHz effective bit rate frontside bus and supporting dual-channel 400MHz DDR SDRAM and DDR 2 memory, according to a DigiTimes report. SiS' SiS656 is likely to have a similar specification. Just in time: VIA hopes its PCI Express chipset will allow it to overtake SiS in the P4 chipset market. Its deadline for doing so is Q2 2004. PCI Express isn't likely to hit the market before that date, allowing VIA - SiS, too - to sample then ship chips to mobo makers in time for a mid- to late Q2 launch.The Register Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted December 9, 2003 Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 I thought PCIE was only going to be for Workstations.Such a drastic change in the home user market...Would it make AGP card prices fall? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted December 9, 2003 Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 PCI Express will make agp virtually redundant.Its a much faster method of transfer, although i'm not positive, i believe it can achieve far more than twice the speed of 8x AGP.some interesting reading re PCI Express here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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