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" ...

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 ...

Despite the name, PCI Express is not strictly an evolution of PCI. Whereas PCI and PCI-X are essentially parallel data connections, PCI Express uses serial technology. All devices on the PCI or PCI-X ...

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) ...

I have an Abit IX38 Quad motherboard with has the following expansion slots:<BR><BR>PCI Express 2.0 x16 =2<BR>PCI Express x16 =1 x PCI Express x16 (x4 model)<BR>PCI Express x1 =1<BR>PCI Slots ...

As data bandwidths escalate, the conventional-PCI shared-bus technology is too slow for many high-performance I/O applications. PCI Express promises to extend the life of PCI by providing a low-cost, ...

Editor’s note: This article is part 2 in a series on Instrumentation 2.0. Read part 1 (the introduction) and part 3 (on FPGAs). PCI Express is an extension to the ubiquitous PCI bus that enables the ...

Increasing numbers of motherboards carry PCI Express slots. James Morris explains why this new serial bus standard is replacing the older PCI parallel bus and how the move benefits video editors When ...