There are two flavors of 64-bit slots: 33 MHz and 66 MHz. Most of your average everyday 32-bit cards will work fine in a 33 MHz 64-bit slot. They won't work in a 64-bit 66 MHz slot, though. The 66 MHz ...

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 ...

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" ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PCI-Express, commonly referred to as PCI-E, and PCI-X are both technology standards designed to improve upon the older PCI standard. Despite the similarity of their names, these two standards are ...

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 ...

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 ...