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Apr 30^th, 2005 at 6:06pm

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Hey all,
I need a pretty quick response to this...

What is PCI EXPRESS? Will the 6600GT PCI EXPRESS work on my normal PCI SLOTS?

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Reply #1 - Apr 30^th, 2005 at 7:01pm

Rob Chrisman Ex Member

PCI-Express is the new bus for graphics cards and is twice the speed of AGPx8, thus making it x16.

They WILL NOT work in normal PCI slots - they won't even fit so don't try. Grin

Currently there are no big steps in PCI-Express and it works at a similar speed to AGPx8 - mainly due to poor support.

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Reply #2 - May 1^st, 2005 at 8:22pm

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Yes, you'll need a new motherboard to use PCI-express. It's basically a brand new interface that will replace AGP.

Read an overview here if you want to learn all about it:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/hardware/pcie.ars/1

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Reply #3 - May 1^st, 2005 at 11:31pm

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No, PCI express is NOT backwards compabatible with PCI.

A 6600 gt is available in AGP though.

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