All this new hardware..Q?

20 Feb 2005 6:16 PM

Christo

i asked a while back about PCI-Express

I'v not had the chance to look into building a PCI-E system, built a few AGP
systems and its been straight forward

plug the card in get everything set up, power on and its cool, the VGA card
works without installing it's drivers before hand, then install drivers once
windows is up and running.

I assume the same happens for PCI-Express video cards yes? no need to fanny
on installing VGA drivers before the OS like with SATA RAID SCSI etc

if someone could just let me know

cheers

dont wanna g out telling someone i can build them a system with PCI-Express
GFX when i dont actually have 100% idea if i can

cheers again

Christo

20 Feb 2005 7:17 PM

John@Smith.com

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:16:26 -0000, "Christo"
<chris@juststuffnospam.co.uk> wrote:

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>i asked a while back about PCI-Express
>
>I'v not had the chance to look into building a PCI-E system, built a few AGP
>systems and its been straight forward
>
>plug the card in get everything set up, power on and its cool, the VGA card
>works without installing it's drivers before hand, then install drivers once
>windows is up and running.
>
>I assume the same happens for PCI-Express video cards yes? no need to fanny
>on installing VGA drivers before the OS like with SATA RAID SCSI etc
>
>if someone could just let me know
>
>cheers
>
>dont wanna g out telling someone i can build them a system with PCI-Express
>GFX when i dont actually have 100% idea if i can

All the posts Ive read say its the same. I havent read anything saying
its different. Why would it be? Its just a different slot.

In fact I have such a system and I just got a card but Im not using it
for a few weeks until Im sure Im NOT getting my preordered card from
ATI .

Anyway if you are interested in it Ive just checked and VIA has come
out with a 939 pci express chipset too along with Nforce4 and I saw an
ASUS board at Newegg a popular online site. at risk of being accused
of spamming again. There are more and more PCI express boards
hitting the mkt and a killer video card which everyone is wating for
is starting to dribble out --- the 800XL which has been hyped at all
the sites as being = to the 6800GT at a $100 cheaper price 299 MSRP.

This is suppposed to blow the video mkt wide open but ATI as usual is
dragging its feet and shipping puny qtys. Some non-ATI versions were
selling these cards at 100 over MSRP the last month or so. However
$299 versions are finally hitting a few stores. In the US you can
order these directly from ATI at a discount if you get a code - 10%
off unfortunately I and others have been waiting over a month for
them.

With PCI express video cards hopefully falling in price its a good
time to consider going PCI express.