This is going to sound like a storage thread, but bear with me, I promise it ends up being about motherboards and CPUs.<BR><BR>I have this 200GB Seagate 7200.7 sitting here that isn't doing anything.

Recently, I visited an online forum where one engineer asked for options for duplicating an existing PC-based test system that has four PCI expansion slots. His problem: Consumer-grade desktop PCs ...

What would be the performance penalty, if any, by running a raid card in a PCI slot instead of a PCI-X slot. I ask because I'm contemplating putting the raid card in my main pc but it obviously ...

Board maker SuperMicro (San Jose, Calif.) has a new motherboard called the P4SCT+II that puts an Intel Pentium-4 processor on the PCI-X high-bandwidth architecture. SuperMicro's P4SCT+II's provides ...

The latest PCI Express technology links the PCIE-PCIX-72 expansion system with PCI-X systems. A 4x PCI Express adapter plugs into a PCI-X slot. A PCI Express cable then links the adapter to a 5U 19-in ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered what it would have felt like to have the leverage of today's best SSDs over three decades ago? One curious Redditor has created the ultimate storage fantasy by testing a modern ...

A hacksmith was recently successful in coming up with one of the most underrated questions some PC enthusiasts have, whether a modern GPU can be fitted onto a 33 MHz PCI port. The task was successful ...

The company's latest vertical card-edge connectors provide 280 positions for interfacing serial PCI Express signals to riser cards in rack-mount servers. Connector series 10037901 accepts either a ...