Building a computer isn't all that hard, but there are a few parts that can be confusing. When you start installing PCI cards—video cards, network cards, and other expansion cards—it's hard to know ...

Although the ability to expand a home computer with more RAM, storage and other features has been around for as long as home computers exist, it wasn’t until the IBM PC that the concept of a fully ...

While most Lifehackers have developed a strong relationship to software, the nitty-gritty of hardware is often left alone. After all, that's why God invented the USB port, right? Well, that's fine and ...

PCI Express (PCIe) has been around since 2003, and in that time it has managed to become the primary data interconnect for not only expansion cards, but also high-speed external devices. What also ...

Pickering Interfaces has expanded its range of PCI precision programmable resistor solutions with the introduction of two new PCI card families. The RTD (resistance temperature detector) simulator ...

You may have wondered which slot you're supposed to install a graphics card into on a motherboard when there's more than one slot. If it has only one PCI Express x16 ...

Now this looks interesting...<BR><BR>Basically its a PCI card with two parallel ATA133 connectors (four drives) and two SATA connectors (two drives). This would make a nice all-in-one method for ...

Being able to identify the PCI cards installed in your company's computers can make upgrading or troubleshooting hardware an easier task. It can also make it easier to track down up-to-date drivers, ...

While the synthetic benchmarks indicate blazing potential, real world performance on a Windows PC is little better than a single fast NVMe drive. That said, it’s a very easy, albeit expensive way to ...

Today I tried to make a S3 Virge PCI card work as a second displaycard in Windows XP. The card works just fine except for the fact that Windows cpmpletely locks up after a minute. Cause of the problem ...