While SSD manufacturers prep PCIe 6 drives, PCIe SIG is working on a next-next-generation alternative.

There are four different PCIe slots that you'll find on your motherboard. These are PCIe x1, x2, x4, x8, and x16; the more lanes you have available on a slot, the more data can be transmitted and ...

PCI-E x1 video cards are available but can be pricier than PCI-E x16 versions so Mikhail used a rotary tool with a diamond cutting wheel to remove a tab from the circuit board of his x16 card to ...

PCI-E cards will work in slots that are at least as large as the card is. This means that the "x16" slots in the Mac Pro computer also supports "x1" and "x4" cards.

The layout of the board makes the only PCIe x1 slot blocked by my video card.<BR><BR>Now, I'm thinking of putting in a PCIe x1 card, and the only option I have is the second PCIe x16 slot.

This seems to be a Latitude E5440 and the card is plugged into a mini-PCIe slot, which means the entire contraption is bound by a single PCI-E Gen2 x1 link, heavily offsetting the gains you’d ...

Thanks for the ideas.<BR><BR>I'm not really comfortable unless the board fits 100% into the PCIe slot, which it's not doing right now. <BR><BR>Looking at it now, I believe that the only way to get ...