I have an HP 4x PCI Express dual port network card but no 4x slot in my system. I read over the internet that 1x or 4x cards can be inserted into the 16x PCI express slot. I then inserted the 4x cad ...

I've been rebuilding my home lab. The plan is to have a storage box (also running KVM to check out migration etc, then a separate beefier VM box. I've already built a box with a Supermicro X10SLM-F ...

It has been about six years since the introduction of the PCI-Express 3.0 standard. However, we won't have to wait much longer for the PCI-Express 4.0 standard: the final specification should be ...

PCI-SIG has announced that PCIe 4.0 specification is finished -- and it plans to have PCIe 5.0 ready to go by 2019. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share ...

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 ...

Hard drives have seen their performance improve more than any other component over the last half-decade, all thanks to the popularization of solid state tech. Now, there’s a big leap forward that ...

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

PCIexpress (PCIe) is one of the most important technologies on modern motherboards, helping to get the most from the fastest SSDs to the most powerful graphics cards. But depending on which board you ...

Bigfoot Network’s Network Interface Card (NIC) is a PCI-e based gigabit Ethernet card which contains its own proprietary network processing unit (NPU) and Bigfoot’s Game Networking DNA™ technology to ...

You may have noticed that your latest-gen flagship laptop sometimes feels sluggish under heavy workloads, despite top‑tier CPU and GPU specs. The culprit often lies not in the cores or clocks, but in ...

We review the new Toshiba OCZ RD400 PCIe NVME SSD. The product in it's core really is an M.2. SSD placed on a PCIe daughter board. So if you have a properly fast M.2. slot (with four PCIe Gen 3.0 ...