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 ...

If you ever looked at a PCI to PCIe x16 adapter and wondered what’d happen if you were to stick a modern PCIe GPU in it, the answer apparently is ‘it works’ according to an attempt by [Circuit Rewind] ...

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 ...

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.

Specifications for two new interconnect technologies were released yesterday by the Peripheral Component Interconnect-Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG), the group said in a press release (download PDF) ...

The latest PCI Express technology links the PCIE-PCIX-72 expansion system with PCI-X systems. A 4x PCI Express adapter plugs into a PCI-X slot. A PCI Express cable then links the adapter to a 5U 19-in ...

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 ...

If you are considering adding extra storage to your computer, NAS or Thunderbolt expansion system’s PCIe card slot, you might be interested to know that Sonnet has this week unveiled its latest ...

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 ...