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YegaDoyai
28th November 2006, 15:03
This was news to me.

http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=3005
Fyndir
28th November 2006, 16:18
*pats X-Fi*

pretty pretty sounds.
Octavion
29th November 2006, 10:24
Moving the data across PCIe is much, much higher than PCI.

Eh? Does PCIe have stilts or something.

Techno babel at it's best.
DAve
29th November 2006, 14:13
It's just data. I mean, even if it's small packets, I find it hard to believe that it would make that much of a difference.

:sigh:
LastChanceHotel
29th November 2006, 18:45
PCI Express packets have very large payload sizes, sent less frequently than PCI. This means that either a) they have to waste the remainder of the very large packet by sending only a small fraction of the data in each packet, or b) they have to bite the bullet and accept that the lag between each packet has to be accepted.

I can't remember how many times bigger PCI-E packets are in relation to PCI 32-bit ones though. but the point is valid.
DJ_Evil
30th November 2006, 05:18
Why not use audio that is 23427593274572893472198374273947289347283.2 then to add loads of other channels of audio ;) also encode everything at 96khz etc :D just to fill out those packets a bit ;)