This is going to sound like a storage thread, but bear with me, I promise it ends up being about motherboards and CPUs.<BR><BR>I have this 200GB Seagate 7200.7 sitting here that isn't doing anything.

What would be the performance penalty, if any, by running a raid card in a PCI slot instead of a PCI-X slot. I ask because I'm contemplating putting the raid card in my main pc but it obviously ...

Recently, I visited an online forum where one engineer asked for options for duplicating an existing PC-based test system that has four PCI expansion slots. His problem: Consumer-grade desktop PCs ...

Martin McGregor, hardware design engineering manager at ForceComputers describes how an extension to the PCI/ISA standards hasdeveloped to provide more robust bandwidth. As the OEM community has ...

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) ...

Conventional PCI and PCI-X computer slots have four supply voltages available: +12, +5, +3.3, and ­12 V. PCI and PCI-X cards rely on +5 V and +3.3 V for most of the power and are limited to 500 mA of ...

Mobility Electronics has introduced its new Magma PCI Express to PCI Expansion Chassis. It cost $1,999. The chassis provides the ability for a PCI Express-based Power Mac G5 to run up to six PCI or ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered what it would have felt like to have the leverage of today's best SSDs over three decades ago? One curious Redditor has created the ultimate storage fantasy by testing a modern ...

PCI Express slots explained 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 ...

We told you small was all the rage these days, and like Lenovo, Canada-based Stealth Computer Corporation promises not to compromise by delivering "a PCI card expansion slot in a powerful small ...