PCI Express (PCIe) was introduced in 2002 as "Third Generation I/O" (3GIO), and by the mid-2000s, motherboards had at least one PCIe slot for graphics. PCIe superseded PCI and PCI-X. Unlike its ...

Despite the trend in shrinking PC sizes, larger desktop towers with ATX motherboards are still popular — and for fiends who ...

Also, unless this particular MaxSun B580 card comes in at a substantially higher price than other B580 cards—by which we mean ...

The 3ware 9550SX PCI-X card is 3.3 V only, and doesn’t fit in a typical PCI slot. It’s not compatible ... is probably finding a PCI-X riser; PCI-Express stuff is far more common.

Peripheral Component Interconnect Express is essentially an interface that connects high-speed components to a computing ...

All SSDs are fast, but it takes a special breed to perform their best in PC games. From internal M.2 drives to external USB ...

PCI Express (PCIe) is an emerging protocol for IO devices connection that is being rapidly adopted by the industry. An increasing number of applications require PCI Express connection support. A ...

(Some of these boards will have only PCI Express 5.0 x16 expansion card slots, and not 5.0-compliant M.2 SSD slots. It's easy to misread that on a spec sheet, so be wary.) (Credit: Molly Flores) ...

2 slot. SATA-based M.2 SSDs are all well and good, but mostly restricted to economy models these days—PCI Express is where the cutting-edge speed is. Your system specifically needs an M.