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Old August 6th 10, 11:02 PM posted to comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Yousuf Khan
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Default Intel's agreement with the FTC

On 8/6/2010 3:46 PM, Robert Myers wrote:
On Aug 6, 1:52 pm, wrote:

Windows requires a PCI bus so that alone will keep from going anywhere.


But not as a x16 slot that nVidia can plug its cards into.

Otherwise, why am I paying government lawyers to reserve space on
every motherboard I buy for at least six years?

Robert.


It hasn't said that you need to keep the slots around, just the bus.
That means GPUs can be soldiered onto motherboards using PCIe lines
directly.

Yousuf Khan