PCI Express and Other Buses

PCI Express is the newest bus system to hit the computer industry and will be replacing the current PCI bus in short order. Visit the following web site to find out more about this new technology.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1087&page=1

1. List some of the devices that must go through the I/O bus.

2. What is the bandwidth of a pentium 4 system with DDR memory? (how much data can be transferred between the CPU and memory?)

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3. The PCI bus uses parallel transport for data, what system does PCI express use?

4. What is the bandwith of the X16 slot in PCI express and what is this slot typically used for?

5. Go on-line and find a PCI Express video card. Write down the name of the card, the manufacturer, the specs, price and web site you used.

Other Buses:

Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio/modem_riser and write a description of the following additional buses:

6. AMR



7. What are the three drawbacks of the AMR?



8. Click on the Communications and Networking Riser and describe CNR.

 

9. Both AMR and CNR have been phased out in favor of what?