Ultimate Renaissance has introduced a low power, small footprint PCI-X to PCI-X bridge. The device is packaged in a 27 x 27mm 380-pin BGA, and has power management features to minimise consumption.

Mac Pro computers come with three unused PCI-express expansion slots for adding extra graphics cards, RAID controllers, multimedia, and I/O controllers, among other options, to expand your Mac's ...

During the past two years, a great deal of speculation has swirled around the direction VME architecture development should take. Although newer standards, such as CompactPCI and industrial-grade ...

As the I/O interconnect world has transitioned from PCI to PCI Express (PCIe), bridge ICs have filled a critical role: to allow designers to continue to use existing PCI and PCI-X endpoints in ...

The difference is very much physical, and 64-bit 33 MHz and 66 MHz PCI slots are not new. They are, however, not usually found in consumer boards, which is probably why you're not familiar with them, ...

PCI Express slots explained Apple has posted a Knowledge Base document offering some interesting details about the PCI Express (PCI-E) slots found in the Mac Pro. All four of the Mac Pro's PCI-E slots ...

I've got a Shuttle HOT-649A, dual Slot-1 440BX mobo, the BIOS is telling me it's running at 133MHz FSB with 33MHz PCI. I know for a fact that AGP is at 88MHz and that's not a problem.<BR>The problem ...

No matter what, system architects are always going to have to contend with one – and possibly more – bottlenecks when they design the machines that store and crunch the data that makes the world go ...

As we all know with any business, you go where the market is. The old adage, "if you build it, they will come" works only in the movies. Not long ago the PC platform standardized on the next ...

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 ...