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Engadget reporting is so … underwhelming for a site with such financial backing. The associated graphic is some random “Maximum PC Magazine via Getty Images“ t

Engadget reporting is so … underwhelming for a site with such financial backing. The associated graphic is some random “Maximum PC Magazine via Getty Images“ thing. You mean they have nobody that can take a photo of the inside of a PC? Then the source of the article is not PCI-SIG itself but a TechReport article: https://techreport.com/news/32064/pcie-4-0-specification-finally-out-with-16-gt-s-on-tap https://techreport.com/news/32064/pcie-4-0-specification-fin... which, frankly, is much more packed with info and deets. In contrast to Engadget there's a nice info-graphic showing the evolution in bandwidth over the years _plus_ there's a table with PCI specs 1 through 5. Finally the source there is PCI-SIG itself: http://pcisig.com/ http://pcisig.com/ and from there you can root through the spec revisions: http://pcisig.com/specifications/review-zone http://pcisig.com/specifications/review-zone – being as someone else pointed out here "PCI Express Base Specification Revision 4.0, Version 0.9" and "PCI Express Base Specification Revision 5.0, Version 0.3" I mean I do like Engadget, I've been going there years, but sometimes I ask myself why I do. Their tech event live-blogs are pretty damn decent I guess but I wish their articles had more meat on them like ArsTechica or AnandTech or TechReport or …

thoughtsimple 9y ago
And they got the reason why manufacturers are going to move to PCIe 4 wrong. It has nothing to do with bottlenecks to video cards and everything to do with freeing up lanes. Pretty awful article.
dingo_bat 9y ago
> You mean they have nobody that can take a photo of the inside of a PC? They're probably using un-openable imacs.
kogepathic 9y ago
> Engadget reporting is so … underwhelming for a site with such financial backing. Yeah seriously. I couldn't believe this line: "Backward compatibility means that manufacturers won't have to redesign old systems, either" What does that even mean? That you can take a PCI-e 4.0 device and plug it into an older slot? Isn't that universally the case with computers, otherwise the bus would be called something else... I'm unaware of any hardware vendor that puts effort into redesigning a product they're already shipping, if not to resolve a deficiency (and even then, it'd better be important to re-spin the hardware).

thoughtsimple 9y ago

And they got the reason why manufacturers are going to move to PCIe 4 wrong. It has nothing to do with bottlenecks to video cards and everything to do with freeing up lanes. Pretty awful article.

dingo_bat 9y ago

> You mean they have nobody that can take a photo of the inside of a PC? They're probably using un-openable imacs.

kogepathic 9y ago

> Engadget reporting is so … underwhelming for a site with such financial backing. Yeah seriously. I couldn't believe this line: "Backward compatibility means that manufacturers won't have to redesign old systems, either" What does that even mean? That you can take a PCI-e 4.0 device and plug it into an older slot? Isn't that universally the case with computers, otherwise the bus would be called something else... I'm unaware of any hardware vendor that puts effort into redesigning a product they're already shipping, if not to resolve a deficiency (and even then, it'd better be important to re-spin the hardware).