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" ...

Conventional PCI and PCI-X computer slots have four supply voltages available: +12, +5, +3.3, and ­12 V. PCI and PCI-X cards rely on +5 V and +3.3 V for most of the power and are limited to 500 mA of ...

Given the string of alphabet soup characters that identify expansion slots on modern computers, choosing the right graphics card for your business computer can be a confusing process. Standard office ...

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 ...

The release of the Raspberry Pi 4 brought us a new SoC, up to 4 Gigs of memory, and most importantly, got away from that janky USB to USB and Ethernet solution. The Raspberry Pi 4 has a PCI Express ...

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 ...

As high-speed interconnects and virtualization software make their way into enterprise data centers, IT managers need to take a close look at how their servers are keeping pace. Experts say that in ...

PCI Express is a technology that consistently makes headlines, with new specifications boasting ever-improving performance regularly appearing in the news. It may come as a surprise, then, to learn ...

It’s probably been a while since you’ve dealt with your computer’s motherboard. You don’t have to, as long as you simply sit at your PC or notebook and carry out everyday tasks. However, if you want ...

Users comparing throughput numbers for PCI Express and PCI-X may find the experience confusing. That’s because the nature of the two architectures makes apples-to-apples comparisons more difficult.