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PCIe 5.0 is right around the corner with it debuting on Intel's new Alder Lake platform, with the new 600-series motherboards led by the Z690 chipset rocking PCIe 5.0 slots and DDR5 memory support. We ...

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 has been about six years since the introduction of the PCI-Express 3.0 standard. However, we won't have to wait much longer for the PCI-Express 4.0 standard: the final specification should be ...

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I'm interested in adding a relatively low power gpu, a GT1030 (30W) or Quadro P600 (40W) to my thin mini itx system, based on a gigabyte Q87TN w/ an Intel i7 4770S (65W). The PCIe slot is x4 in size, ...

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