FIRST LOOK: ULi M1697 for Athlon 64/x2

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• semiconductorslave - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - link

  I was replying to the first comment on the post, "Why do all the new motherboards have all these PCIe slots when there is nothing available to stick in them."
  
  I made the assumption that since this person said there was nothing availible, that he or she did not make any effort to search. My example of Newegg and Google was narrow on purpose, showing how easy it is to find out what is availible when one starts looking. I was only trying to make a point that people instead of asking right away, could spend a little effort and maybe say something like, "I found these cards, are there any more?"
  
  But saying, "YOU don't have the ability to see how the information's presentation is relevant." is quite an assumption on your part about my abilities.

• mindless1 - Thursday, December 15, 2005 - link

  Not an assumption at all, it comes straight from what you wrote, and yes it was in the context of what you'd replied to.

• semiconductorslave - Thursday, December 15, 2005 - link

  You say, "you need to learn to think for someone other than yourself" but I didn't see you list any cards, where I at least did search and made a comment about how one should at least attempt to look for themselves before making comments like there aren't any PCI ex cards. Are you daft? You must just be trying to get my goat. I was trying to make a point but if you want to go on the attack, that isn't a productive debate anymore. I would suggest you don't take your own advice and try to think for anyone else since I don't think you can spare the mental energy.
  
  You can now have the final word as this is going nowhere.

• Ozz1113 - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - link

  SCSI, raid drive controllers...

• Wesley Fink - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - link

  Gigabit Ethernet PCIe x1 controllers.

• Missing Ghost - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - link

  tv tuners

• ceefka - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - link

  PCI-e Firewire 400 and 800 cards by SIIG and Belkin

• Calin - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - link

  The new Creative xFi cards are PCIe 1x

• LoneWolf15 - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - link

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  The new Creative xFi cards are PCIe 1x

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  Sad to say, they are not, they're plain-jane PCI. People had hoped they would be, but Creative is unlikely to do PCIe until its next-gen card after the X-Fi. Even with the X-Fi and todays most advanced games that can use its features, there isn't enough data being transferred to saturate the PCI bus.

• mindless1 - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - link

  ... isn't enough data to saturate from this one lone card, but seldom does a board only have one PCI slot. It's not the audio card that's the issue, it's when the audio card interferes with OTHER cards.