[SATLUG] PCI and SATA questions

[M. Filio]

On 7/30/05, Travis H. <solinym at gmail.com> wrote:

> And what's PCI-X and PCI-2.2?

PCI-X is the new PCI bus 'PCI Express', basically only the very high
end vid cards are using it so far. It's meant as a replacement to both
AGP and the older PCI standards which PCI-2.2 is one of the standards.

> And is SATA-150 the same as SATA-II?

No, it's not. SATA-II is SATA-300, a double increase in its transfer rate. 

> Where would I find the answers to these kinds of questions?
> I feel like there has to be a place...
> Tom's hardware perhaps?  I dunno, not really organized to make answering
> these questions easy...

Tom's Hardware is a good place. Another site I've been reading
recently is http://www.anandtech.com/

And of course, if you use VIA chipsets a lot, you could read viaarena.com.