PCI Express acceptance in the enthusiast market has been expectantly slow since Intel's release of the first boards with the technology back in June. We say "expectantly" because there were many factors going into the launch that we knew of that would prevent the take of the new bus in any sort of rush. First, the technology was going to be expensive: new motherboards meant new processors and new video cards and new memory; probably new hard drives as well. Not to mention the processors and motherboards and memory were much higher than competitive solutions at the time. Also, we knew that the availability of these pieces was going to ramp up rather slowly -- finding PCIe graphics cards for sale is a recent occurrance and the 775-processors are not quite in abundance. Lastly, as this was an Intel only release, a lot of the enthusiast and DIY market was just not going to be interested quite yet.



Link: Pc Perspective