PCI and PCI-X are not directly compatible, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that means you’re out of luck if you need to use a PCI-X card in a machine that only has basic PCI slots. And yet, that ...

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 ...

Expansion cards don't usually get tons of attention, but they are some of the most valuable and affordable upgrades you can make to your PC. Instead of buying a new motherboard to get features or ...

This is going to sound like a storage thread, but bear with me, I promise it ends up being about motherboards and CPUs.<BR><BR>I have this 200GB Seagate 7200.7 sitting here that isn't doing anything.

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 ...

I ran a pretty major PCI-X RAID-5 card in a PCI slot for quite a while, and I got great performance, but I had nothing else at all on that PCI-bus. The RAID-card wanted more, but at least it took full ...

Motherboards are the backbone of a computer, holding different vital parts such as the processor, RAM and also providing connections to other peripherals. Upgrading internal computer parts is always ...