The serial nature or PCIe does help reduce the number of traces between the Video Card and the CPU but only by 1/4 or so. (128 vs 32~16) But, to do that they had to ramp-up the bandwidth 4x AGP to do that. Thats still one hell of a cord and you'll need two no less! One Input (PC-to-VideoCard) and one Output (VideoCard-to-PC). Unless the the VGA out is on the card. Mind you, if one of those four connectors is mis-aligned/damaged/etc the machine will refuse to boot or worse. I doubt you can make such an interface hot-swappable either. God knows what sorta damage you'll do to the bus if the external card gets disconnected. *shivers thinking about it* There goes this months paycheck.
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Onihanju @ Jul 28th 2006 10:40PM
The serial nature or PCIe does help reduce the number of traces between the Video Card and the CPU but only by 1/4 or so. (128 vs 32~16) But, to do that they had to ramp-up the bandwidth 4x AGP to do that. Thats still one hell of a cord and you'll need two no less! One Input (PC-to-VideoCard) and one Output (VideoCard-to-PC). Unless the the VGA out is on the card. Mind you, if one of those four connectors is mis-aligned/damaged/etc the machine will refuse to boot or worse. I doubt you can make such an interface hot-swappable either. God knows what sorta damage you'll do to the bus if the external card gets disconnected. *shivers thinking about it* There goes this months paycheck.