Here are some of the most useful card types that are worth plugging into your PCIe slots, and how to best take advantage of them. If you have a desktop PC with at least an mATX motherboard or ...

The long-standing advice for PC storage for gamers, workers, and everyone in between has always been, “Just use an SSD.” It didn’t matter too much if you were using a PCIe 3 SSD, a PCIe 4 SSD, or even ...

motherboards had at least one PCIe slot for graphics. PCIe superseded PCI and PCI-X. Unlike its PCI predecessor, which used a shared bus, PCI Express is a switched architecture of up to 32 ...

When attached to a motherboard's PCIe x16 slot, a card such as the GeForce RTX 4080 can draw up to 75W from the +3.3V and +12V rails (3.3V x 3A + 12V x 5.5A). This is the maximum amount specified ...

As long as you accept needing to supply external power with even a low-end GT 1030 card – as the PCI slot cannot provide enough power – and being limited to a single PCIe lane. This latter ...

ASRock's new B860 motherboards shown off at CES 2025: new Phantom Gaming, Steel Legend, and more with Gen5 support, Thunderbolt 4, and more.