Nowadays the empty internal slots rarely get used in tower type computers but these computers are a little more expensive so i wanted to find out the difference. what would be the practical uses of a ...

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) ...

The PCI bus as we know it seems to be dying, as new standards emerge. The PCI 32/66, 64/33 and 64/66 have been around for some time in the server domain, but never made it's way downward. Since came ...

The PCI-8246 two-port Gigabit Ethernet PCI-X card provides bypass capability to directly connect the GbE signals on its two ports when the system is powered down or has crashed. This bypass feature is ...

Addressing system crashes and power-down scenarios, the PCI-8246 two-port Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) PCI-X card now provides a bypass capability to directly connect the GbE signals on the two GbE ports.

PCI and PCI-X are not directly compatible, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that means you’re out of luck if you need to use a PCI-X card in a machine that only has basic PCI slots. And yet, that ...

Based on a state-machine architecture, the Xframe II 10-Gbit/s Ethernet adapter delivers full line-speed operation over its PCI-X 2.0 host-bus interface. Similarly, the Xframe E card does the same ...

In what must be one of the more unusual PCIe cards we’ve seen recently, Japanese company Kuroutoshikou has introduced a PCI Express adapter that adds an antiquated parallel port to modern PCs. Named ...