The difference is very much physical, and 64-bit 33 MHz and 66 MHz PCI slots are not new. They are, however, not usually found in consumer boards, which is probably why you're not familiar with them, ...

Apple has posted a Knowledge Base document offering some interesting details about the PCI Express (PCI-E) slots found in the Mac Pro. All four of the Mac Pro's PCI-E slots are 16-"lane" or "x16" ...

Mac Pro computers come with three unused PCI-express expansion slots for adding extra graphics cards, RAID controllers, multimedia, and I/O controllers, among other options, to expand your Mac's ...

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 ...

Reducing the manufacturing costs by not providing for a slot which is gradually being replaced by PCI-E, PCI-X, and USB. PCI first came out in 1992. Both my PCI slots are unused. Some time ago, I had ...

Given the string of alphabet soup characters that identify expansion slots on modern computers, choosing the right graphics card for your business computer can be a confusing process. Standard office ...

Specifications for two new interconnect technologies were released yesterday by the Peripheral Component Interconnect-Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG), the group said in a press release (download PDF) ...

Raspberry Pi enthusiast and YouTuber Jeff Geerling has published a new video demonstrating a Raspberry Pi equipped with plenty of I/O connections in the form of 11 PCI express slots with four of them ...

Motherboards are the backbone of a computer, holding different vital parts such as the processor, RAM and also providing connections to other peripherals. Upgrading internal computer parts is always ...

[Gnif] had a recent hard drive failure in his home server. When rebuilding his RAID array, he decided to update to the ZFS file system. While researching ZFS, [Gnif] learned that the file system ...