In the worst cases, cheap PCIe riser cables can even cause a fire inside the system, risking the safety of more than just your GPU (or SSD). PCIe risers certainly have their uses, but you need to be ...

Monday's announcement that the new 9 and MacBook Pros come equipped with USB 3.0 ports was welcome news to Mac users, but an indication of a broader question in the minds of those same users -- which ...

One Stop Systems’ PCIe x16 Gen 2 host cable adapter enables high-speed expansion over a PCIe cable from a host system at 80 Gbps to a PCIe downstream device or expansion chassis. The cable adapter ...

The new PCIe External Cable 3.0 class cables are becoming the new standard for external cables for storage and enterprise systems. This cable type is defined in the PCI Express External Cabling ...

Using a riser in a full-size chassis is usually in order to mount a GPU in a vertical fashion, which, depending on the case, ...

Are PCI (not PCIe) riser cables any good? I have a Slot 1 PC that was giving me all sorts of stability problems until I realised my Vortex 2 kept backing itself out of its slot. Getting it to fit is ...

If you see the error message Please power down and connect the PCIe Power Cables for this Graphics Card on your Windows 11/10 PC, read this post to learn how to ...

I'm considering installing my (to be bought) Nvidia RTX 3080 horizontally in a (to be bought) Fractal Design Define 7 Light. I'll likely be using a (to be bought) X570 motherboard, maybe a B550. I'd ...

In a press release in my inbox, the PCI-SIG PR representative said that PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 6.0 internal and external cable specifications are currently in development and are "targeted for release" in ...

The specs for the next-generation CopprLink cabling are fantastic, with these new cables to be super-fast for AI systems, data storage, data centers, and external devices both internally, and ...

When you plug in a USB or Thunderbolt cable to your computer, that connection is often being routed to a small chip that then translates that data into a PCI Express signal for the final connection to ...