Not that you would, but you could: When details regarding a graphics card with an integrated M.2 slot emerged earlier this year, the purpose of the unusual feature was unclear. This week, a proper ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's RTX 5060 Ti, which is rumored to emerge next week, has witnessed a bunch of leaked pics showing MSI and ASUS models. We're also hearing that the graphics card only offers PCIe 5.0 x8, ...

Typically, graphics cards use PCI Express x16 slots. That's a PCIe slot configured with sixteen individual data lanes. These data lanes are physical connections, and that's why an "x16" slot is so ...

In context: Chipzilla is hosting several events to highlight the new LGA-1851 socket and the 800-series chipsets to distributors and motherboard manufacturers in the lead-up to the Arrow Lake-S launch ...

On Intel's current platforms, if you want a PCIe 5.0 SSD connected directly to your CPU for the most optimal performance, it's going to split off of the PCIe x16 slot normally meant for graphics. That ...

PCIe bifurcation has firmly planted itself as a necessary technology in consumer PC hardware. At its simplest, it’s just the process of dividing the lanes from a single PCIe slot into multiple smaller ...

Carefully check your motherboard’s PCIe capabilities and BIOS bifurcation settings for its x16 slot before buying the Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5. Those determine how many of the Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5’s four ...

The spec for PCIe 7.0 has been announced It’s a new standard for even faster – incredibly quick – connections with PCIe components in your PC The standard is still in the earliest stages, though, and ...

Although the PCI Express 7.0 standard is already a reality, most home users are just starting to use PCI Express 5.0 connectivity. According to industry sources, such as Silicon Motion’s CEO Wallace C ...

DDR5 is not an option on AM4 boards. The Ryzen CPUs for AM4 don't support anything but DDR4 RAM. You might get some PCIe 4.0 slots, but that makes a fairly small difference for a GPU. NVMe mass ...

We know, you’re thinking that this is a trick question. Everyone knows that multiple PCIe lanes of 5Gbps each trumps a single 6Gbps SAS link (Serial Attached SCSI). Even we can do that math. And what ...