A motherboard's main job is to act as a conduit between the various hardware elements that make up a PC. It needs to be able to link the desired CPU(s), system memory, graphics card, hard drive(s), ...

Besides the MXM port there are two further interfaces for DVI-I (digital + analogue), LVDS and TV-out on the peripheral card. Software support exists for Windows XP and Windows VISTA. A flexible heat ...

It’s probably been a while since you’ve dealt with your computer’s motherboard. You don’t have to, as long as you simply sit at your PC or notebook and carry out everyday tasks. However, if you want ...

No matter what, system architects are always going to have to contend with one – and possibly more – bottlenecks when they design the machines that store and crunch the data that makes the world go ...

When system architects sit down to design their next platforms, they start by looking at a bunch of roadmaps from suppliers of CPUs, accelerators, memory, flash, network interface cards – and ...

Can you really believe it's been six years since we first saw PCI-Express? Even PCI-Express 2.0 has been around since 2007, and three years later, here we are with the next generation ratified and ...

The next generation of the PCIe interconnect is going to tidy up your gaming rig's innards by delivering at least 300W of power through the socket alone. Read more: the best graphics cards to buy ...

A brief timeline of PC graphics bus interfaces. The history of the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus. The status of the current industry-standard PCI Express (PCIe) bus. Prior to the PC era, ...

PCI-Express (PCIe) is the backbone of today’s complex systems requiring high speed data communication with high throughput. It is being used extensively in different applications like computer cards, ...

It will still be another few weeks before the very first consumer motherboards supporting PCI Express 4.0 (PCIe 4.0) arrive in retail, courtesy of AMD's Ryzen 3000 CPUs and X570 motherboards, but the ...