When attached to a motherboard's PCIe x16 slot, a card such as the GeForce RTX 4080 can draw up to 75W from the +3.3V and +12V rails (3.3V x 3A + 12V x 5.5A). This is the maximum amount specified by ...

Hi there<BR>Every couple of years, when I upgrade hardware, I get caught on some technology advance. This time it is PCI Express. On my last upgrade I was fully informed on AGP and its multipliers.

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 ...

I have a Sapphire Ultimate Radeon HD 6670 video card (PCI Express 2.0 x16) that I'd like to put in a PCI Express 3.0 x8 slot so the video card doesn't block another PCI Express slot that I need. The ...

Today Dominic takes a look at the new gtx 1660 Ti graphics card from Nvidia - he takes a look at the more expensive, overclocked msi Gaming X 6G version priced at £310. Reference cards start £50 ...

Staking its claim as the first PCI Express chip set for the AMD Athlon processor, the K8T890 opens up the AMD64 processor platform (Athlon 64, Opteron, and Sempron CPUs) to PCI Express. It supports ...

Today Dominic takes a look at the new msi rtx 2060 Gaming Z 6G graphics card and puts it through its paces. He finds out that while it's a good card and slightly better than reference, it's £400, ...