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 ...

Building a computer isn't all that hard, but there are a few parts that can be confusing. When you start installing PCI cards—video cards, network cards, and other expansion cards—it's hard to know ...

You may have wondered which slot you're supposed to install a graphics card into on a motherboard when there's more than one slot. If it has only one PCI Express x16 ...

You might have heard the term “bifurcation” if you’ve been around PCIe, especially in mining or PC tinkering communities. This is splitting a PCIe slot into multiple PCIe links, and as you can imagine ...

Back the late 2000s, when netbooks were the latest craze, some models would come with an inbuilt 3G modem for Internet access. At the time, proper mobile Internet was a hip cool thing too — miles ...

While most Lifehackers have developed a strong relationship to software, the nitty-gritty of hardware is often left alone. After all, that's why God invented the USB port, right? Well, that's fine and ...

Anyone who has a gaming PC knows that you use a PCIe socket for installing the most important component on your PC, a ...

Being able to identify the PCI cards installed in your company's computers can make upgrading or troubleshooting hardware an easier task. It can also make it easier to track down up-to-date drivers, ...

Today I tried to make a S3 Virge PCI card work as a second displaycard in Windows XP. The card works just fine except for the fact that Windows cpmpletely locks up after a minute. Cause of the problem ...

Spectracom announces the availability of a new feature-rich bus-level timing card for the PCI express peripheral component interconnect standard. The product, TSync-PCIe Time Code Processor, ...