(16/04/2010 01:10 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Doing such a move may damage PR, but perhaps if they can somehow justify something like PCI-e x16 not offering enough bandwidth, they could transition users to a proprietary connector.  In fact, there already is somewhat a reason - GPGPU stuff like CUDA/OpenCL's main weakness is the high latency between it and the CPU/RAM - it can be argued that this new connector would reduce latencies, and justified.

they went from pci>agp>pci-express so why not make a universel new faster socket anyway,..

I am guessing this might be a bad idee,. people don't want 2 different sockets,.