The whole idea of PCI-express hype to me is just stupid. No offense but let me argue my point.
As someone else pointed out how much performace is a sound card, video card, raid card, EIDE and scsi card, ethernet card, etc.. going to benifit from PCI express? I mean even the newer audigy 2's (which is about one of the most resource intensive PCI perphrial you can, graphics cards excluded) really dont hit a bottleneck with the PCI bus, much less an ethernet card or a winmodem. Sure these cards could be maufactured for the PCI express standard but it would just be silly. It would be more expensive to make the cards for no performance gain. Sound cards might someday need a higher bandwidth as sound technology becomes more advanced. But with that we're talking a good decade or close to it yet that its going to NEED taht kind of bandwidth.
I'd hate to say it but it looks like the PCI-express standard is going to be another video port on a computer. We could use t for other things which gives us some leeway. But still given the marketing, price, and technilogical no how of most of the population, who in there right minds would manufacture a whole line of network cards for the standard when the normal PCI bus is more then enough and cheaper to impliment.
