You can get a PCIe solid state drive today with speeds higher than SATA3 can provide. Here's one with a read speed of 12.5 Gbit/s. http://www.ocztechnology.com

You can get a PCIe solid state drive today with speeds higher than SATA3 can provide. Here's one with a read speed of 12.5 Gbit/s. http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-revodrive-3-x2-max-iops-pci-express-ssd.html http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-revodrive-3-x2-max-iops-pci... Device controllers used to be divided between a northbridge (memory, video) and southbridge (pcie, sata, usb, etc), but in the latest generation northbridge components are integrated into the CPU. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northbridge_%28computing%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northbridge_%28computing%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southbridge_%28computing%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southbridge_%28computing%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_5_Series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_5_Series