PCI-X
Not to be confused with PCIe or PCI Express, PCI-X is a high performance bus that is designed to meet the increased I/O demands of technologies such as Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet and Ultra3 SCSI often used in servers that was first developed by IBM, HP, and Compaq in 1998. PCI-X capabilities include the below features.
- Up to 133 MHz bus speed
- 64-Bit bandwidth
- 1GB/sec throughput
- More efficient bus operation for easier interface.
- Split Transactions allows an indicator device to make only one data request and relinquish the bus, instead of constantly needing to poll the bus for a response.
- Byte Count that enables indicator to specify, in advance, the specific number of bytes requested, eliminating the inefficiency of speculative prefetches.
- Backwards compatibility
With the introduction of PCI Express, PCI-X is not as commonly found or used today.
Also see: Bus, Motherboard definitions, PCI