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Rejoice! PCI Express 7.0 hits 'final draft' status enabling bandwidth that you probably won't notice on devices that won't appear for years (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm confused. Are we mad at hardware research and development as a concept now or is what's left of the tech press just stuck in permanent snark mode and just can't physically write any other way?

I mean, not every new standard is meant for home use primarily out of the gate and PCIe devices are backwards compatible with older standards, so... yay, people who need to build a very fast NAS will be able to chuck more, faster drives in there now. Good for them.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

...is what's left of the tech press just stuck in permanent snark mode and just can't physically write any other way?

It feels like it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Well, I guess you can have more potent PCIe cards now, so you can add QSFP variants like QSFP256 or just multiple connections, without worrying about bandwidth.

That is, if that is actually used somewhere, currently we're stuck at 5.0, and servers usually are not meant to have connectivity added in, but rather to just have it (more cash for the manufacturer anyway).