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

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.

motherboards had at least one PCIe slot for graphics. PCIe superseded PCI and PCI-X. Unlike its PCI predecessor, which used a shared bus, PCI Express is a switched architecture of up to 32 ...

For a while around a quarter century ago PC motherboards came with a special slot, a little shorter than the PCI slots which ruled the roost back then, and offset from them further into the case.

When attached to a motherboard's PCIe x16 slot, a card such as the GeForce RTX 4080 can draw up to 75W from the +3.3V and +12V rails (3.3V x 3A + 12V x 5.5A). This is the maximum amount specified ...

Asus found itself facing accusations of a GPU-damaging connector design at the start of this year, thanks to claims that its Q-Release Slim PCI slot system could potentially scrape GPU pins over ...