PCI Express slots explained Apple has posted a Knowledge Base document offering some interesting details about the PCI Express (PCI-E) slots found in the Mac Pro. All four of the Mac Pro's PCI-E slots ...

Apple has posted a Knowledge Base document offering some interesting details about the PCI Express (PCI-E) slots found in the Mac Pro. All four of the Mac Pro's PCI-E slots are 16-"lane" or "x16" ...

Hi there<BR>Every couple of years, when I upgrade hardware, I get caught on some technology advance. This time it is PCI Express. On my last upgrade I was fully informed on AGP and its multipliers.

The latest PCI Express (PCIe) specification again doubles the data rate over the previous spec. PCI Express 7.0 calls for a data rate of 128 gigatransfers per second (GT/s) and up to 512 GB/s ...

One of the big new features in X570 motherboards designed for AMD’s Ryzen 3000 CPUs, is PCI Express 4.0. But even with its overkill bandwidth, the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI SIG) has already ...

No matter what, system architects are always going to have to contend with one – and possibly more – bottlenecks when they design the machines that store and crunch the data that makes the world go ...

Recently, I visited an online forum where one engineer asked for options for duplicating an existing PC-based test system that has four PCI expansion slots. His problem: Consumer-grade desktop PCs ...

Hard drives have seen their performance improve more than any other component over the last half-decade, all thanks to the popularization of solid state tech. Now, there’s a big leap forward that ...

If you are considering adding extra storage to your computer, NAS or Thunderbolt expansion system’s PCIe card slot, you might be interested to know that Sonnet has this week unveiled its latest ...

Want true next-gen SSD performance? Start with a compatible rig—and one of our top tested PCI Express 5.0 M.2 drives. Here's how to choose the right bleeding-edge SSD for your PC. Our team tests, ...

This afternoon both PCI Express slots on my motherboard stopped working. In the "BIOS" nothing plugged into them is detectable. It shows up as an empty slot in the BIOS no matter what graphics card I ...

Gigabyte's Micro-ATX X99 board packs a lot of features in a small space and, with a few modest caveats, makes a good starting point for a compact, dual-card gaming system. Impressive feature set for a ...