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> The signals travel at the speed of light

It's about 75-90% the speed of light, but even that's too slow.

Modern hardware components are getting to latencies in single digit nanoseconds. Light travels about 30cms in a nanosecond, so extending a pcie port to a different box is going to have a measurable difference.



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