Here's something that serves almost no practical purpose and effects only a tiny fraction of enthusiasts, but yet is still interesting to see nonetheless. The crew at OCWorkbench got SLI working using ...

Looks like all that talk about Grantsdale and Alderwood and whatever numbers SiS uses were wrong. Computex showings reveal that there are boards from both Gigabyte and ECS (yes, ECS) that have BOTH ...

News.com discusses the recent adoption of AGP 8x on NVidia's nForce2 chipset. But dates this standard and expects PCI Express to overtake it in about 1 1/2 years: "AGP has kind of worn out," said ...

For a while around a quarter century ago PC motherboards came with a special slot, a little shorter than the PCI slots which ruled the roost back then, and offset from them further into the case. This ...

A brief timeline of PC graphics bus interfaces. The history of the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus. The status of the current industry-standard PCI Express (PCIe) bus. Prior to the PC era, ...

The GECUBE RADEON ® X800XL AGP series uses the ATI ® RADEON ® X800XL PCIe graphics chip and includes the latest internal PCI Express - AGP bridge chip technology developed by ATI ®, so that the core ...

Also on ECS's stand at CeBit, you'll find a mainboard called K8T890-A940, which uses VIA's K8T890 core logic (funnily enough!) to bring PCI Express and AGP to AMD's new socket and processor family.

Currently dominating the desktop PC motherboard and graphics markets, the PCI Express protocol is poised to supplant PCI and PCI-X interface as the dominant high-bandwidth interconnect for the server, ...

A motherboard's main job is to act as a conduit between the various hardware elements that make up a PC. It needs to be able to link the desired CPU(s), system memory, graphics card, hard drive(s), ...

PCI Express is a technology that consistently makes headlines, with new specifications boasting ever-improving performance regularly appearing in the news. It may come as a surprise, then, to learn ...