Recently, I visited an online forum where one engineer asked for options for duplicating an existing PC-based test system that has four PCI expansion slots. His problem: Consumer-grade desktop PCs ...

What would be the performance penalty, if any, by running a raid card in a PCI slot instead of a PCI-X slot. I ask because I'm contemplating putting the raid card in my main pc but it obviously ...

Add more speedy storage with those unused slots.

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. And yet, that ...

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" ...

Reducing the manufacturing costs by not providing for a slot which is gradually being replaced by PCI-E, PCI-X, and USB. PCI first came out in 1992. Both my PCI slots are unused. Some time ago, I had ...

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 ...

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 ...

All that extra storage comes with trade-offs.

Be honest, when was the last time you installed anything in a PCIe slot that wasn't a graphics card? We still indulge in this charade, where ATX motherboards come equipped with several 1x and 4x slots ...