PC components have a finite number of channels that connect with the CPU. These channels are physically built into the CPU, the motherboard, and the components themselves — and they're called PCIe ...

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 ...

Questions about PC hardware support aren't always straightforward, and this is proving very much to be the case with regard to X400 Series motherboard chipsets and support for Ryzen 3000 processor ...

Your motherboard's BIOS may be silently limiting PCIe performance. A quick settings audit can unlock the full potential of ...

PCIexpress (PCIe) is one of the most important technologies on modern motherboards, helping to get the most from the fastest SSDs to the most powerful graphics cards. But depending on which board you ...

PCIe 5.0 has a lot of bandwidth to tap, but it’s been a year with nothing to use it with. With the introduction of Nvidia’s PCIe 4.0-only graphics card and stories of upcoming PCIe 5.0 SSDs needing ...

The group responsible for developing and updating the PCI Express standard, the PCI-SIG, aims to update that standard roughly every three years. Version 6.0 was released earlier this year, and the ...

It’s probably been a while since you’ve dealt with your computer’s motherboard. You don’t have to, as long as you simply sit at your PC or notebook and carry out everyday tasks. However, if you want ...

AMD Threadripper Pro CPUs are coming to take down Intel’s Xeon workstation chips, offering up to 64 cores, 128 threads, 128 lanes of PCIe Gen 4, and up to 2TB of RAM. All four chips feature the same ...