Re:Details on AMD's Quirky Chipset Solutions for AM5
by formerly_proven on Monday May 23, 2022 @01:53AM
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> on the trend of turning PCIe into a serial bus of sorts.
PCIe switches used to be far more common before certain things happened in the market and they became uber-expensive. I have a few NICs where, instead of using multi-port controllers, they just used PCIe switches... arguably I/O hubs have probably been the cheapest PCIe switches around for some time now...
Re:Details on AMD's Quirky Chipset Solutions for AM5
by 3np on Monday May 23, 2022 @03:31AM
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Still haven't found anything compelling for PCIe4 but for PCIe3, I had no issues so far with 10Gtek, which are reasonably priced.
Re:Details on AMD's Quirky Chipset Solutions for AM5
by colejohnson66 on Sunday May 22, 2022 @11:40PM
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> They are banking heavily on the trend of turning PCIe into a serial bus of sorts.
It was always a serial bus? PCIe 1.0 was just too slow to handle everything without 16x systems. In fact, 32x slots/cards existed in the server market to make up for the missing bandwidth.
Not surprising at all given that the same vendor thought it was fine stratagem to market a midrange dedicated GPU with only 4x PCIe 4.0 lanes. They are banking heavily on the trend of turning PCIe into a serial bus of sorts.