A few weeks back, Intel introduced their latest Desktop Chipsets and motherboards based on them. With these new chipsets Intel are introducing numerous platform changes, signalling their intent to make the PC an even more high performance, hence versatile, platform than it is already. In this review Beyond3D are taking a look at Intel?s D925XCV Desktop board and the technologies the 925X chipset it?s based on brings.
"PCI Express's serial point-to-point nature requires few sideband signals, meaning the the bandwidth per pin can be very high in comparison to PCI Conventional. The upshot of this is that a x1 connector can be a fraction of the size of a PCI Conventional slot, whilst still providing twice the bandwidth on its first implementation. Bandwidth can be further scaled up by increasing the number of lanes running two and from a device and the PCI Express standard allows for x1, x4, x8 and x16 slots." Intel's 925X Platform - D925XCV Desktop Board Review
"PCI Express's serial point-to-point nature requires few sideband signals, meaning the the bandwidth per pin can be very high in comparison to PCI Conventional. The upshot of this is that a x1 connector can be a fraction of the size of a PCI Conventional slot, whilst still providing twice the bandwidth on its first implementation. Bandwidth can be further scaled up by increasing the number of lanes running two and from a device and the PCI Express standard allows for x1, x4, x8 and x16 slots." Intel's 925X Platform - D925XCV Desktop Board Review
