[geeks] OS X on x86

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 @ 10:11 -0500, Phil Brutsche said:

> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > Does your Intel system have a PCIe system bus? I don't mean expansion
> > (mezzanine), I mean the motherboard's I/O bus.
> 
> @ 2.4GHz, not likely.

Why not?

PCIe on the motherboard doesn't determine what CPU the board can run.

> > I assume AMD is going to move forward by increasing the use of
> > HyperTransport and integrate it with PCIe.
> 
> Most AMD64 systems use HyperTransport to the PCI-E "switch".

Right... and I assume going forward they will continue to do so.



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