Pcie articles

How much power can a PCIe x16 graphics card draw from the motherboard alone?

Experimental Micron PCIe 6.0 SSD hits a massive 30.25 GB/s, but it's not ready for your rig yet

Nvidia NVLink Fusion delivers 14x more bandwidth than PCIe Gen5 for AI data centers

WD Black SN8100 debuts with PCIe 5.0, blazing-fast performance

Sandisk's Stargate SSD architecture targets 512TB drives by 2027

Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs throttle PCIe 5.0 SSD speeds, tests reveal

Editor's take: It's no secret that Intel is in a tight spot. The company that invented the microprocessor doesn't seem to understand how to make great products anymore, and users are suffering significant performance issues as a consequence.

Seagate begins work on NVMe HDDs for cost-effective AI workloads

Micron and Astera demo first PCIe 6.0 SSD, delivering 27GBps sequential read speeds

Samsung's 9100 Pro SSD is the world's fastest consumer drive, hitting 14,800 MB/s sequential read speeds

Asus denies reports of quick-release GPU damage, but offers support for affected users

Asus Q-Release Slim motherboard mechanism may be damaging graphics card's PCIe connectors

PSA: Asus and other PC hardware vendors have spent the last few years exploring ways to make installing and removing motherboard components easier and safer. Asus' latest method aims to eliminate release buttons and latches from PCIe slots, but recent reports indicate that the procedure risks chipping the gold fingers.

PCIe 7.0 spec nearing completion, promising 16GB/s per lane bandwidth

Phison steals Micron's PCIe 5 SSD crown after just one day with a 122TB drive

Gigabyte add-on card brings Thunderbolt 5 to existing desktop PCs

Forward-looking: Thunderbolt 5 doubles Thunderbolt 4's bandwidth, offering 80Gbps transfer speeds in either direction. However, Thunderbolt 5's alternate mode can transmit at 120Gbps while receiving data at 40Gbps upon detecting certain devices. The extra boost currently only supports cable lengths up to two meters.

AMD X670E motherboard bug is nerfing PCIe 5.0 SSD performance

Samsung launches 990 Evo Plus NVMe SSDs with enhanced speed and thermal performance

Next-generation motherboards will make swapping SSDs and GPUs easier

New technology enables GPUs to use PCIe-attached memory for expanded capacity

More practical PCIe 5.0 SSDs will finally arrive this year based on the SiliconMotion SM2508 controller

In context: Up until now, the only PCIe 5.0 SSDs on the market have been powered by the Phison E26 controller. They're certainly fast, with sequential speeds of over 12GB/s, but they also run incredibly hot and are power-hungry. We're talking active cooling requirements and over 11W of power draw under load, which is not exactly ideal for rigs.

Western Digital's new budget NVMe SSDs arrive at peculiar price points

PCIe 7.0 achieves impressive 128 GT/s in optical connection demonstration

PCIe 6.0 and 7.0 deployment encounters delays

Patriot showcases DDR5 that overclocks to 11,500 MT/s