Despite the trend in shrinking PC sizes, larger desktop towers with ATX motherboards are still popular — and for fiends who want to get the most out of their systems, these have a secret weapon: PCIe ...

This is splitting a PCIe slot into multiple PCIe links ... equipment and you rely on either the “in-mainboard x1 plug” or the “x16 slot” boards out of a typical riser extender, you ...

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.

PCI Express (PCIe) was introduced in 2002 as "Third Generation I/O" (3GIO), and by the mid-2000s, motherboards had at least one PCIe slot for graphics ... serial lanes (x1-x32) that transfer ...

PCIe x4 and x8 cards can draw up to 25W from the motherboard's slot, while x1 cards are limited to 10W unless configured as a 'full-height' or 'high-power card' to pull the aforementioned 25W.

Some smaller PCIe slots run at x1 or x4, and these are meant for low-bandwidth add-in cards (see below). But everyone already has a graphics card, right? In fact, the one PCIe add-in that most ...