Take the graphics card express: PCI express graphics cards take technology to a new level

摘要

IT'S TRANSITION TIME! The introduction of PCI Express graphics cards and the systems that accommodate them has produced a wave of new technology, the breadth of which I've not seen for quite some time. The PCI Express is a new system bus architecture for PCs that provides much greater throughput and opens a wide array of potential system changes that will ultimately affect the entire industry, CPUs continue to increase in speed, and communications across the system bus have, in some instances, been throttled because the bus was incapable of transferring information fast enough to take advantage of both the CPUs and any add-in cards installed in the system.