Your SSD slot is hiding a secret feature: 5 upgrades that aren't storage ...

Typically, graphics cards use PCI Express x16 slots. That's a PCIe slot configured with sixteen individual data lanes. These data lanes are physical connections, and that's why an "x16" slot is so ...

So in theory PCI-e is backwards compatible, i.e. that if it fits physically, it'll run electronically. In reality, we hear stories all the time about the x16 slots not working for anything other than ...

My old Zen3 system is going to become a Linux toy and I want to use the CPU PCIe lanes for storage and networking. It’ll have to be in the bottom slot of the motherboard where only a single slot card ...