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" ...

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 ...

The PX1011B is a high-performance, low-power, single-lane PCI Express electrical PHYsical layer (PHY) that handles the low level PCI Express protocol and signaling. The PX1011B PCI Express PHY is ...

Hi there<BR>Every couple of years, when I upgrade hardware, I get caught on some technology advance. This time it is PCI Express. On my last upgrade I was fully informed on AGP and its multipliers.

I have a Sapphire Ultimate Radeon HD 6670 video card (PCI Express 2.0 x16) that I'd like to put in a PCI Express 3.0 x8 slot so the video card doesn't block another PCI Express slot that I need. The ...

With the emergence of the PCI Express 2.0 specification, data-transfer rates doubled from 2.5 GT/s to 5.0 GT/s. To develop effective receiver and transmitter tests for this faster rate, you'll need an ...

No matter what, system architects are always going to have to contend with one – and possibly more – bottlenecks when they design the machines that store and crunch the data that makes the world go ...

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 ...

The common hardware interface in PCs, Macs and other computers for connecting peripheral devices such as storage drives and graphics cards. PCI Express (PCIe) was introduced in 2002 as "Third ...

The release of the Raspberry Pi 4 brought us a new SoC, up to 4 Gigs of memory, and most importantly, got away from that janky USB to USB and Ethernet solution. The Raspberry Pi 4 has a PCI Express ...

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) ...