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. This ...

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 ...

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

The difference is very much physical, and 64-bit 33 MHz and 66 MHz PCI slots are not new. They are, however, not usually found in consumer boards, which is probably why you're not familiar with them, ...

When you're looking at motherboard features for your next PC build or upgrade, one of the most important specifications is how many PCIe lanes it supports, thanks to the combination of CPU and chipset ...

MSI has a pretty impressive line-up of motherboards for Intel's new Core Ultra 200 Series CPUs - from the high-end MEG Z890 ACE to the stylish PRO Z890-A WIFI and the PC gamer-focused MAG Z890 ...

Although the Raspberry Pi 5 has a PCIe interface, it doesn’t have a slot for a PCIe SSD. There’s now a whole range of plug-in boards (HATs = Hardware Attached on Top) for retrofitting SSDs. They ...

If you are considering adding extra storage to your computer, NAS or Thunderbolt expansion system’s PCIe card slot, you might be interested to know that Sonnet has this week unveiled its latest ...

Specifications for two new interconnect technologies were released yesterday by the Peripheral Component Interconnect-Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG), the group said in a press release (download PDF) ...

So, am I the only one wondering why so many enthusiast motherboards are sporting fancy new 64-bit PCI slots, and cutting back on the plain but currently useful 32-bit PCI slots? I was quite happy when ...

When buying a faster computer, we are accustomed to paying attention first of all to the number of processor cores and the amount of RAM, and only then evaluate the parameters of the storage. However, ...

Alftel's Seaberry ITX is a carrier board, or a what most of us would call a motherboard for the Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module, which last month saw a price hike. However, unlike most motherboards for ...