Most people know PCIe as the slot used to install their graphics card, and nothing more. It's the long horizontal receptacle located beneath the CPU socket that has duplicates below it (similar-sized ...

Testing and debugging of PC peripheral cards often requires a bus extender. While rigid extender cards provide you with access for oscillosocpes and logic analyzers, you sometimes need to be a ...

MSI have unveiled a new motherboard which they have added to their range in the form of the Z68A-GD80 (G3), which is the world’s first motherboard to be equipped with PCI-E Gen 3. The PCI-E Gen 3 ...

So really Z68 is pretty much merely a small update. You can look at the chipset as a combination of H67 and P67, as it carries the H67 support for the internal graphics on the Sandy Bridge processors ...

The motherboard manufacturers are hard at work prepping X570 series motherboards for the new Ryzen 3000 processors. These will also bring PCI-Express 4.0 towards the eco-system. Interesting, Gigabyte ...

Forget the usual headers — these connectors can be game-changing for your PC ...

Last night I had the grim task of doing a post mortem on my computer. Somehow the IDE channels are toast and the motherboard is a write off.<BR><BR>So now I need to buy a new motherboard and chip. I ...

MSI is unlocking PCI Express 4.0 support on its Z490 motherboards for owners who decide to upgrade to Intel’s upcoming “Rocket Lake” CPUs. The PCIe 4.0 support on the older Z490 motherboards will ...

Embedded technology provider RadiSys said this week it has launched four additions to its Procelerant Endura embedded motherboard product line. A notable enhancement in the four new motherboards, ...

The new B650E chipset ushers in PCIe 5.0 for the mainstream, as the big difference between the "E" and "non-E" motherboards -- where the E stands for "Extreme" is PCIe 5.0 for both GPUs and SSDs ...

This afternoon both PCI Express slots on my motherboard stopped working. In the "BIOS" nothing plugged into them is detectable. It shows up as an empty slot in the BIOS no matter what graphics card I ...