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 ...

There are two flavors of 64-bit slots: 33 MHz and 66 MHz. Most of your average everyday 32-bit cards will work fine in a 33 MHz 64-bit slot. They won't work in a 64-bit 66 MHz slot, though. The 66 MHz ...

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" ...

What would be the performance penalty, if any, by running a raid card in a PCI slot instead of a PCI-X slot. I ask because I'm contemplating putting the raid card in my main pc but it obviously ...

Mac Pro computers come with three unused PCI-express expansion slots for adding extra graphics cards, RAID controllers, multimedia, and I/O controllers, among other options, to expand your Mac's ...

Although the ability to expand a home computer with more RAM, storage and other features has been around for as long as home computers exist, it wasn’t until the IBM PC that the concept of a fully ...

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 ...

PCI-Express, commonly referred to as PCI-E, and PCI-X are both technology standards designed to improve upon the older PCI standard. Despite the similarity of their names, these two standards are ...

Be honest, when was the last time you installed anything in a PCIe slot that wasn't a graphics card? We still indulge in this charade, where ATX motherboards come equipped with several 1x and 4x slots ...

The MP700 Micro uses Phison’s E31T host memory buffer (HMB) controller to harness four lanes of PCIe 5.0, delivering data to ...