You might have heard the term “bifurcation” if you’ve been around PCIe, especially in mining or PC tinkering communities. This is splitting a PCIe slot into multiple PCIe links, and as you can imagine ...

PCI and PCI-X are not directly compatible, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that means you’re out of luck if you need to use a PCI-X card in a machine that only has basic PCI slots. And yet, that ...

The difference is very much physical, and 64-bit 33 MHz and 66 MHz PCI slots are not new. They are, however, not usually found in consumer boards, which is probably why you're not familiar with them, ...

Whether you've been building computers for some time or are looking to get involved, you have likely heard the term PCIe ...

When you're looking at motherboard features for your next PC build or upgrade, one of the most important specifications is how many PCIe lanes it supports, thanks to the combination of CPU and chipset ...

Specifications for two new interconnect technologies were released yesterday by the Peripheral Component Interconnect-Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG), the group said in a press release (download PDF) ...

Although the Raspberry Pi 5 has a PCIe interface, it doesn’t have a slot for a PCIe SSD. There’s now a whole range of plug-in boards (HATs = Hardware Attached on Top) for retrofitting SSDs. They ...

MSI has a pretty impressive line-up of motherboards for Intel's new Core Ultra 200 Series CPUs - from the high-end MEG Z890 ACE to the stylish PRO Z890-A WIFI and the PC gamer-focused MAG Z890 ...

PCIe 6.0 implementations are expandable and hierarchical with embedded switches or switch chips, allowing one root port to interface with multiple endpoints (such as storage devices, Ethernet cards, ...

So, am I the only one wondering why so many enthusiast motherboards are sporting fancy new 64-bit PCI slots, and cutting back on the plain but currently useful 32-bit PCI slots? I was quite happy when ...

When buying a faster computer, we are accustomed to paying attention first of all to the number of processor cores and the amount of RAM, and only then evaluate the parameters of the storage. However, ...