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Alienware has released their Pci Express (and all the pluses that follow such as ddr2) in their new gaming systems. For more info here's a link http://alienware.com/news_pages/news.aspx#PCIE_0621

edit: wrong link sorry i meant this one

 

http://alienware.com/Sub_Pages/pci_express.aspx

Edited by pyro_chaos

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btx isnt goign to come as soon as yall think, and pci-e isnt really goign to do nothing for gaming perofrmance for at least another year. the reviews i tought were very unimpressive. this is your basic intel lauch showing what can be done and it will take a year or so to actually utilize that. btx will probally be first used by intel as they need it for the hott cpu's there making.

 

now the 2 video card thing is impressive but geez is it really needed and the cost of 2 pci-e cards will run a grand, hell i can build a good gaming rig for the cost of both cards and what ever hardware,software needed to use 2 pci-e cards

 

ive found if you play the waiting game with pc parts you just get let down in the end

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2 vid cards? what the heck? :O

 

I remember using 2 vid cards before, 2 voodoo 2's, they were both pci and they kicked a$$ back in the day :P

yeah but this alienware one (i think it's the same one) has the 2 cards going to the same display... so one does half, the other does the other half, and there's some sort of controller thing to do the split/combine...

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yeah but this alienware one (i think it's the same one) has the 2 cards going to the same display... so one does half, the other does the other half, and there's some sort of controller thing to do the split/combine...

Yeah thats what my old voodoo's did too! Share the load, they were beasts :)

 

I wouldnt mind having 2 GFX cards again :rolleyes:

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aleinware isnt doing sli one card does top half of the screen the other does the bottom half, and they are seeing a 77% increase in perofrmance over using 1 card :P . now if this holds water im boycotting intel for sure http://www.overclockers.com/articles1049/ locked fsb? only a 10% oc ? thats nuts, but i highly doubt the mobo makers will go along with this as alot of there revenue comes for overlcokers

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