Thread: droool - 4 WAY SLI

Originally Posted by WileECyte

People said you'd never see motherboards without PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports... well that's started to happen too.. In a lot of cases, with electronics, the overall speed of your system is only as fast as your slowest component. Legacy components are slower.

pshhh

If mr jinx says the sky the blue most of you will disagree and say its light blue just because its me :9


Anyways I have a high end overclocking mobo- Asus Rampage Formula and guess what? My keyboard is ps/2


lol no not playstation 2.....


When it comes PCI plug/play hardware how much speed do you need and will it actually make a difference? Sure on paper the numbers will be higher but will it translate into faster speeds in game?

Originally Posted by jason_jinx

When it comes PCI plug/play hardware how much speed do you need and will it actually make a difference? Sure on paper the numbers will be higher but will it translate into faster speeds in game?

Well it does make a little bit of difference, but that is not the big point. The more types of connectors you have, the more types of bus controllers you need. If everything is PCI-E and USB 2.0 you minimize your chipset and the overhead in determining what chipset sends/receives what data to the bus. It is more of a matter of engineering simplicity and uniform standards than about PCI-E being faster...even though it is faster. Simple design means less things eat up overhead and less things to go wrong; fewer driver issues, etc.

I hope we see mobos with PCI-E/PCI-X and USB only soon.