PCB plating finish plays a major role in meeting the socket’s functional requirements. Devices used in high-speed, high-density, high-pin-count applications need special consideration in terms ...

The B850M GAMING PLUS WIFI motherboard from MSI is a microATX board built around AMD’s B850 chipset, designed for system ...

We all like to standardise. But there doesn’t appear to be any pin number system defined for one of the most popular wire-to-board connector sets. Marking the PCB pin header isn’t so important, as the ...

SP5, like its predecessor SP3, is a 6,096-pin land-grid array ... According to the PCB schematics, each of the four segments of the SP5 socket is linked to one of the 12 DIMMs' subchannels.

The trick is simple: on any old development board that uses 0.1″ pitch headers, simply weave some fishing line through the plated through-holes in the PCB. Then, regular jumper wires can be ...

TL;DR: GALAX's new GeForce RTX 5090 HOF OC Lab Edition is a high-performance graphics card designed for extreme overclocking, featuring 38 power stages and a single 16-pin power connector.

Hmm. In the teardown of Palit's new GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GamingPro OC graphics card, the PCB revealed spacing for two 8-pin PCIe power connectors. The empty area is next to the 12VHPWR power ...

You can almost hear me grunting… I put the PCB on my inverted iron and press down with all of my weight on a rolling pin. The resulting pressure is fairly high because the rolling pin has a ...