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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A set of chips that provides the interfaces between an Intel CPU and the PC's subsystems. An Intel chipset provides the buses and electronics to allow the CPU, RAM and I/O devices to interact. Most ...