Just wanted to give everyone a heads up, I was able to order the ASUS USB4 PCIe Gen4 Card, dual USB4® ports card from eBay. It shipped and arrived yesterday.
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This is probably a better place for it:
https://forum.level1techs.com/t/post-what-new-thing-you-acquired-recently/149881?u=vivante
Many people follow it and learn what new and useful thing they can buy.
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I appreciate the response. Can I move it there?
I mean just post a picture of it if you have, what it does if it’s not obvious, what you have planned for it… I learned a lot of stuff following that thread.
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There is one on Amazon.
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Bro, I appreciate the heads up! I got one about a month ago on eBay.
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I’ll wait on USB 4 until they start building it into Mobo. Can’t spare the PCI slot at the moment.
I am waiting for more PCIE lanes. I want 100+ lanes on every pc/tech device I own
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I’d like to see a modular designed system like the old Amiga architecture where dedicated chips handled separate tasks instead of one monolithic CPU. Then heavy networking tasks wouldn’t take away from the CPU processing jobs, as one example.
The more PCIe lanes you want, the more pins you need. So why not segment that off onto it’s own chip? Then you can pick and place chips that conform to what you need to do. Need more PCIe lanes, upgrade the controller chip.
Fantasy, I know, but a girl can dream.
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I agree with that and wonder why they have moved away from that design? And at the same time, it seems like they have use it with other components.
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Probably because of IP reasons. Someone owns a key patent and refuses to share without a ridiculous amount of money, or it is sitting in the patent vault of some mega-corp legal office.
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Did you see the new AM5 CPUs will have 28 pcie lanes?
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It was because of performance reasons. The closer you integrate into the CPU the lower the latency. That is why you can see drastic difference between an SSD off the chipset vs directly connected to the CPU, or lose a few FPS on your graphics card when you run it off a chipset slot. The only problem is less lanes because of how much die space they take up.
But now that we are in the chiplet era, I would like to see the return of more lanes. Id love if we had 2 core chiplets (or more on HEDT/server) and break the IO into 2 chiplets as well where one is the memory controllers, a big L4 cache, 8 lanes of PCIE for running to NVME (for OS drives connected closer to the cores), and maybe a few high bandwidth USB controllers, and the other chiplet with a bunch of PCIE lanes on it . Maybe get back up to 40 lanes like we used to have back when we have northbridges.
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