This is no normal mini PC, as the price highlights, but the power and expansion options offer serious potential.

You hear that? The tide is turning on PCIe 5.0 prices. A new dawn is upon us, and other old-fashioned anecdotes. Here's a fast PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD for less than some PCIe 4.0 drives, and that's ...

Consider a city that suddenly doubled the number of lanes on its busiest highway. Traffic now flows faster, more efficiently, and with less congestion. That's exactly what PCIe 5.0 brings to PCs — ...

TL;DR: The PCI-SIG has released version 0.7 of the PCIe 7.0 specifications for member approval, aiming to finalize it later this year. PCIe 7.0 will double the bandwidth of PCIe 6.0, offering 128GT/s ...

As of right now, the fastest PCI Express protocol available on consumer motherboards is PCI Express 5.0, which offers up to 128GB/s of bi-directional x16 bandwidth. While certainly fast, PCI Express 7 ...

If you’re on the hunt for the least expensive PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, then the Kingston NV2 will likely appear at the top of the list. Performance is more than adequate for the average user, but it’s not ...

For high-capacity storage needs, the average consumer turns to hard disk drives (HDDs). They’re generally not as speedy or reliable as SSDs, but they’re a heck of a lot cheaper. The Apex Storage X21 ...

PCIe 5.0 has a lot of bandwidth to tap, but it’s been a year with nothing to use it with. With the introduction of Nvidia’s PCIe 4.0-only graphics card and stories of upcoming PCIe 5.0 SSDs needing ...

RAID, Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, is a lot less relevant than it used to be. With super-fast SSDs and easy-to-use backup systems both easily available, the primary needs to chain multiple ...

The PCI-SIG Developers Conference 2022 is underway in California. The PCI-SIG group is responsible for development of PCIe specifications, and today it announced that the next (realistically next-next ...

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A new diagram for the Intel Z690 chipset has been posted by PC Inquisitor, where we can see that the new Z690 chipset has 1 x 16 + 2 x 8 lanes of PCIe 5.0 that are attached directly to the CPU. The ...