Bon Echo(Firefox 2) Alpha 3 released

bgeh — Sat, 27 May 2006 13:25:39 +0800

Bon Echo Alpha 3 is a developer preview release of our next generation Firefox browser and it is being made available for testing purposes only. Bon Echo Alpha 3 is intended for web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Mozilla Firefox 1.x should not use Bon Echo Alpha 3.

Download link(Win32 EN-US) : http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...20Alpha%203.exe

Release notes: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0a3.html

Download(other OS'es) : http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or...bonecho/alpha3/

Credit goes to pal-moz of mozillazine forums

A general guide to PCI-Express

bgeh — Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:09:54 +0800

Official PCI-Express webpage:
http://www.pcisig.com/specifications/pciexpress

Related links where where i got info from:
http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.html?i=1830

#1: It's a serial connection, like SATA

#2: It's backwards compatible with PCI in software/driver terms

#3: It had a very high effective bandwidth per pin........meaning? the slots are very small, in fact, a PCI-e x1 is much smaller then the PCI slot you see today(btw, the long slot is a PCI-e x16 slot, short one is a PCI-e x1 slot)

#4: It is NOT only for graphics cards(AGP) but other cards like network cards bla bla bla

#5: 60 watts max for PCI Express, compared to 25 watts for AGP 8X. meaning? no more molex connectors that'lll spoil your case mod look

#6: I can't stress this enough, and don't know why this thing keeps happening
PCI-E IS NOT PCI-X
PCI-X is an PCI part with an extended bus because server operators found that the PCI bus was getting bottlenecked so a new part was made to alleviate it

-this is PCI-X

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