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 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 ...

Since SLI and CrossFire are dead, many PC gamers aren't using the secondary PCIe slot on their motherboards anymore. Well, your graphics card doesn't have to be lonely since you can install a bunch of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nowadays the empty internal slots rarely get used in tower type computers but these computers are a little more expensive so i wanted to find out the difference. what would be the practical uses of a ...

The PCI Express slot on your motherboard allows you to connect video cards using the PCIe bus standard. Most motherboard models also feature an integrated graphics chipset that allows you to run your ...

Mobility Electronics has introduced its new Magma PCI Express to PCI Expansion Chassis. It cost $1,999. The chassis provides the ability for a PCI Express-based Power Mac G5 to run up to six PCI or ...

The company's latest vertical card-edge connectors provide 280 positions for interfacing serial PCI Express signals to riser cards in rack-mount servers. Connector series 10037901 accepts either a ...