MSI have just released a PR to share some of the notable test results of their PCI-E 4.0 motherboards with the Samsung 980 Pro SSD. Normally not something we'd post, but check that last DiskMark ...

MSI have unveiled a new motherboard which they have added to their range in the form of the Z68A-GD80 (G3), which is the world’s first motherboard to be equipped with PCI-E Gen 3. The PCI-E Gen 3 ...

It's easy to get caught up in the hype around PCIe 5.0 when you're shopping for a new motherboard in 2025. After all, manufacturers often tout it as a must-have for future-proofing your build in their ...

Testing and debugging of PC peripheral cards often requires a bus extender. While rigid extender cards provide you with access for oscillosocpes and logic analyzers, you sometimes need to be a ...

Last night I had the grim task of doing a post mortem on my computer. Somehow the IDE channels are toast and the motherboard is a write off.<BR><BR>So now I need to buy a new motherboard and chip. I ...

When AMD’s excellent Ryzen 3000-series processors released last summer, snatching the desktop computing crown from Intel, one of their key features was support for the blazing-fast PCIe 4.0 ...

The folks in the XtremeSystems forum have posted some images of the new ASUS P5W64 WS Pro workstation motherboard. The most unique aspect of this new board is the presence of four PCI-E x16 slots.

Yesterday we reported that gigabyte is actively pulling inf PCI-Express 4.0 support from all non-X570 motherboards. AMD has now stepped it up and is has removed the feature from older chipsets in ...

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Last week, ASRock brought its Fatal1ty Global tour 2011 to London to show off a number of new motherboards the company is bringing to market this month, most of which sport PCI-E 3.0. The new boards ...

This afternoon both PCI Express slots on my motherboard stopped working. In the "BIOS" nothing plugged into them is detectable. It shows up as an empty slot in the BIOS no matter what graphics card I ...

There’s been an increasing amount of discussion about PCI-E 4.0 since AMD launched the X570 platform and Ryzen 3000 Series processors in 2019. MSI, the world-leading motherboard brand, has provided ...