I have a Sapphire Ultimate Radeon HD 6670 video card (PCI Express 2.0 x16) that I'd like to put in a PCI Express 3.0 x8 slot so the video card doesn't block another PCI Express slot that I need. The ...

PCI Express slots explained 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 ...

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 ...

I have a Nofen A40 silent computer with a Gigabyte ga-h67ma-ud2h-b3 motherboard. It has the following PCIE slots: 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16) * For optimum performance, if only ...

Typically, graphics cards use PCI Express x16 slots. That's a PCIe slot configured with sixteen individual data lanes. These data lanes are physical connections, and that's why an "x16" slot is so ...

PCI-SIG is excited to disclose that the first review draft of the PCI Express (PCIe) 7.0 specification, version 0.3, is now accessible to its members. This significant milestone signifies the ...

With PCIe Gen 3.0, processors and compatible platforms (mobo and VGA) can feature 16 PCIe 3.0 lanes to be used for graphics and/or other add-in PCI cards. The all new PCI Express Gen 3 is really ...

No matter what, system architects are always going to have to contend with one – and possibly more – bottlenecks when they design the machines that store and crunch the data that makes the world go ...

Looks like Point of View is working on their very own ION based mainboard. This in and of itself is not surprising, but the fact that they sandwiched in a PCI-E x16 slot and they also opted for a ...

With Intel's Sandy Bridge processors set to debut at CES 2011, MSI has taken the opportunity to unveil its new flagship P67 motherboard offering, the "Big Bang Marshal." Demonstrating the very ...