PCI-ex Prices?

Ait'al · 2004-03-01, 06:43 PM

I just found a PCI-ex Soundblaster card.

http://www.accupc.com/itemDetail.jsp?pid=873763

Are they all going to be this price?

Wondering if anyone has seen this yet.

Fragmatic · 2004-03-01, 07:10 PM

That's fake.

Soundblaster Live 5.1 cards were replaced by the Audigy series.

Ait'al · 2004-03-01, 07:16 PM

You sure? And if your right is there anywhere to report it? should i Email the URL to Creative?

Fragmatic · 2004-03-01, 07:22 PM

Yeah, theyre still available, most places sell them as cheap cards. They're like $40 cards =/

That website also has the same card for $35.66 anyway.

I also doubt creative would release that card as PCIe instead of the high end, flagship, Audigy 2 cards.

Also... PCI express slots are smaller, I don't think they are PCI express, instead maybe the E stands for a bulk order. (they also have Creative Sound Blaster PCI128's (old crap cards) for $314.94, so it must be bulk order stuff.)

Rbstr · 2004-03-01, 08:29 PM

Probably a mistake, besides its worse than an audigy2, why would they make a PCI card that wasn't very good?

Mistake/bulk order is my guess

However PCI-Ex comes in many different sizes, from small 1x with 25mb's of bandwidth to a 32x huge slot, yes thats several GB's of bandwidth.

16x is the one that will replace AGP

EDIT: heres the normal card http://www.accupc.com/itemDetail.jsp?pid=083596

Phaelon · 2004-03-02, 08:24 AM

You wanna learn all about what PCI-Express really is, go to Toms hardware and let science be the torch that leads your journey.

That sounded so lame =p

http://www.tomshardware.com/motherbo...erwood-09.html