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 ...

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" ...

You may have wondered which slot you're supposed to install a graphics card into on a motherboard when there's more than one slot. If it has only one PCI Express x16 ...

I have an Extreme N6600 Silencer 250MB PCI-E Asus Graphics card which I would like to install on a Asus P4C800-E motherboard but this motherboard does not have a PCI-E slot. (It has 5 PCI slots and 1 ...

The Magma PCI Express-to-PCI expansion system adds six 64-bit/66-MHz PCI slots to PCI Express-based computers. The slots are connected to the PCI Express host computer through a four-lane (x4) ...

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 ...

As the I/O interconnect world has transitioned from PCI to PCI Express (PCIe), bridge ICs have filled a critical role: to allow designers to continue to use existing PCI and PCI-X endpoints in ...

Are PCI (not PCIe) riser cables any good? I have a Slot 1 PC that was giving me all sorts of stability problems until I realised my Vortex 2 kept backing itself out of its slot. Getting it to fit is ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. As expected, the PCI-SIG has announced the PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 specification. The 3.0 ...

PCI Express (PCIe) has been around since 2003, and in that time it has managed to become the primary data interconnect for not only expansion cards, but also high-speed external devices. What also ...

Many times in the past we have noticed end-users all cramped up about the fact that their graphics card runs ‘only’ on a PCI Express Gen 2.0 16x or even PCI Express Gen 1.1 16x whereas technology has ...

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 ...