New 8800GT card from Apple

[Paul Sargent]

On Jan 11, 2008 7:51 AM, LuKreme <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
>
> OK, I am confused.  This card requires PCI-E 2.0 and only the new Macs
> have PCI-E 2.0?
>
>

>From Wikipedia:

> PCI Express 2.0
>
> PCI-SIG announced the availability of the PCI Express Base 2.0 specification on
> 15 January 2007.[4] PCIe 2.0 doubles the bus standard's bandwidth from 2.5 Gbit/s
> to 5 Gbit/s, meaning a x32 connector can transfer data at up to 16 GB/s in each
> direction.

> PCIe 2.0 is completely backwards compatible with PCIe v1.x. Graphic cards and
> motherboards designed for v2.0 will be able to work with v1.1 and v1.0, and vice versa.

So it looks like this guy may be mis-informed.