To Bridge or Not to Bridge

***Veridian3*** · Mar 2, 2004, 04:55 PM

Beyond3d's Dave Baumann has just posted a short editorial on ATI and Nvidia's PCI express strategy, you can find it at the link below...

"As we discussed previously NVIDIA has announced their "HSI" (High Speed Interconnect) PCI-Express bridge chip. The HSI bridge chip allows their current line of AGP enabled boards to communicate with PCI-Express chipsets, immediately giving rise to the "PCX" range of GeForce boards that can operate in the PEG 16X slot of PCI-Express enabled motherboards. At present it seems likely that native PCI-Express graphics chips will be produced by NVIDIA later in the year. "

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~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Mar 2, 2004, 05:09 PM

Wow so you are or this article is saying that you can use an adapter for your AGP video card to run on a new mobo with PCI express and have a the same badwidth as a PCI express card?

zerodamage · Mar 2, 2004, 11:40 PM

I do not think so Sourcer. All an adapter will do is allow the AGP card work on a PCI Express board and hopefully maintain 8X AGP performance. That's all we can hope for really.

Mar 2, 2004, 04:55 PM	#1
*Veridian3* Administrator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Cloaked Posts: 5,028 Rep Power: 182	To Bridge or Not to Bridge Beyond3d's Dave Baumann has just posted a short editorial on ATI and Nvidia's PCI express strategy, you can find it at the link below... "As we discussed previously NVIDIA has announced their "HSI" (High Speed Interconnect) PCI-Express bridge chip. The HSI bridge chip allows their current line of AGP enabled boards to communicate with PCI-Express chipsets, immediately giving rise to the "PCX" range of GeForce boards that can operate in the PEG 16X slot of PCI-Express enabled motherboards. At present it seems likely that native PCI-Express graphics chips will be produced by NVIDIA later in the year. " Full Article

Mar 2, 2004, 05:09 PM	#2
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	Wow so you are or this article is saying that you can use an adapter for your AGP video card to run on a new mobo with PCI express and have a the same badwidth as a PCI express card?

Mar 2, 2004, 11:40 PM	#3
zerodamage HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 3,478 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	I do not think so Sourcer. All an adapter will do is allow the AGP card work on a PCI Express board and hopefully maintain 8X AGP performance. That's all we can hope for really.