SAM and other new hardware - missing modern graphics card slots?

[yakumo9275]

pci slots will be around for ages, pci-e is just a superset of pci. agp is nothing but a 4x pci slot. so it shouldne bt much more hassle but agp slots limit you to ... agp cards only.. pci slots let you put in anything pci.

pci isnt going anywhere (in a world that still ships psi and rs232 connectors on mobos).

at least with pci-e its more than just gfx cards (unlike agp).

[yakumo9275]

would be interesting to see how that chip (8377e) handled with saturated dual gigabit ethernet.. most of these SOC's really struggle on the bandwidth front. there is a lot of bandwidth hungry connections hanging off that single chip...

and the two ethernet lanes are shared on the two PCI x1 express lanes.