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This is on the heels of "what happened to the discreet sound card?" Let me ask you this: What is left to plug in? Most removable gadgets are USB because USB is
by MisterTea 4y ago
This is on the heels of "what happened to the discreet sound card?"
Let me ask you this: What is left to plug in? Most removable gadgets are USB because USB is fast enough. The devices which actually need the bandwidth, latency or memory mapping are already on the motherboard. And the people who need more are a minority.
The only real use case for PCIe to the average PC user is for connecting a GPU or NVMe. Moving forwards I see the converged hodgepodge of USB4 and beyond killing the x1-x4 PCIe slot with servers being the last hold out for high slot counts.
- cbozeman 4y agoWe're being nickel and dimed and upsold on high-end workstations for something that another poster in this thread already established was cheap... right up until Broadcom bought the company that made the cheap alternative chip. It's so fucking American, isn't it? If you can't beat someone with your technical superiority, buy them out.
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoHappens all the time! I was in a startup bought out to kill our product.