It's all down to the PCIe lanes.

If you look far, far behind, we left the point of diminishing returns there.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Suited for dense packaging, board-to-board applications, the 1.00-mm pitch, one-piece PCIe card edge connectors feature slots that accept 1.58-mm thick daughtercards. The connectors are offered with ...