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 ...

Could an ASUS prototype PCIe connector spell the end of bulky, unsightly power cables for graphics cards? We may soon find out—ASUS is showcasing a "magic modification" to the standard PCIe slot, ...

It's been nearly six years since the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) released the base specification for PCIe 3.0. With its successor just around the bend, interest in the new specification is ...

It's no secret that the latest graphics cards from AMD and especially Nvidia are power-hungry beasts, and all indications are the next-gen GPUs will be even hungrier. With rumors that both companies ...

Your 1Gbps connection needs at least a Cat 5e cable, with Cat 6 being the recommended standard these days, especially for ...

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In a press release in my inbox, the PCI-SIG PR representative said that PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 6.0 internal and external cable specifications are currently in development and are "targeted for release" in ...

A couple of months ago, we posted a story from the Computex 2023 trade show. ASUS was there showing off some interesting new concepts for PC hardware. One of them was a prototype for a graphics card ...

A new PCI Express standard has been approved that will allow for the development of and operation of external PCIe graphics cards. Dubbed the PCI Express External Cabling specification and approved by ...