I've got a DFI X48 motherboard (2x PCIe x16 2.0 for CrossFire) with a video card in the top PCIe slot. The layout of the board makes the only PCIe x1 slot blocked by my video card.<BR><BR>Now, I'm ...

You might have heard the term “bifurcation” if you’ve been around PCIe, especially in mining or PC tinkering communities. This is splitting a PCIe slot into multiple PCIe links, and as you can imagine ...

I realized this when I was swapping it out for a RTX 2080ti...I had the 980ti in the right spot in an older setup, but I don't how I didn't notice that much difference for the last half year! Playing ...

PCI Express (PCIe) has been around since 2003, and in that time it has managed to become the primary data interconnect for not only expansion cards, but also high-speed external devices. What also ...

Most people only use a single PCIe slot on the motherboard, namely the topmost x16 slot, to install their graphics card. The other PCIe slots are left vacant on most PCs since any additional ...

Albatron has today rolled out a slightly unusual graphics card in the form of its GeForce 9500 GT PCIe x1. The card, pictured below, is a custom take on NVIDIA's GeForce 9500 GT and sports a PCIe x1 ...

PCWorld explores five practical ways to utilize empty PCIe slots in desktop PCs, transforming unused expansion slots into valuable system upgrades. Key upgrades include Wi-Fi 6/7 cards, high-speed ...