The next Mac Pro should have..................

[nanofrog]

1. Buy the dongle
2. Buy Mac Pro
3. ???
4. Profit

LOL!

That's Apple.

 

[Tallest Skil]

Fixed, no graphics cards are even particularly close to hitting the 1.1 barrier. It's just a future proofing device more than anything that you could get an immediate benefit out of.

Really? They're not even hitting 1.1? Okay, then. Good to know.

But what about other PCIe expansion cards? (this will all go in my thread)

RAID cards, fiber channel cards, and the like. Couldn't/don't they take advantage of more bandwidth?

 

[nanofrog]

Fixed, no graphics cards are even particularly close to hitting the 1.1 barrier. It's just a future proofing device more than anything that you could get an immediate benefit out of.

Don't forget the Marketing.

 

[jjahshik32]

Man if I can produce the mini display port (female) to (female) DVI, I'd make a small fortune, LOL.

 

[J the Ninja]

Really? They're not even hitting 1.1? Okay, then. Good to know.

But what about other PCIe expansion cards? (this will all go in my thread)

RAID cards, fiber channel cards, and the like. Couldn't/don't they take advantage of more bandwidth?

At x16? No, grab Wiki and a calculator. Even with a nested RAID array of X-25s you'd be hard pressed to saturate an x8 PCIe link, much less an x16.