Last time, I’ve explained everything you could want to know if you wanted to put an M.2 socket onto your board. Today, let’s build M.2 cards! There’s a myriad of M.2 sockets out there that are just ...

Since SLI and CrossFire are dead, many PC gamers aren't using the secondary PCIe slot on their motherboards anymore. Well, your graphics card doesn't have to be lonely since you can install a bunch of ...

The Blazing Quad M.2 Card features a single-slot design with dual fans, an XXL aluminum cooling fin (heatsink), and thermal pads. A single 6-pin connector also powers it. That cooling might sound ...

Has anyone any HANDS ON experience with the ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5 Card (PCIe 5.0/4.0) Supports Four NVMe M.2 (2242/2260/2280/22110) Devices up to 512 Gbps for AMD and Intel® Platform RAID Functions?

The new MSI PCIe Gen5 M.2 Expander-Z card arrives on a PCIe 5.0 x16 slot and could be one of the first PCIe 5.0-capable devices outside of NVIDIA's purported GeForce RTX 3090 Ti which should arrive in ...

In the first M.2 article, I’ve described real-world types and usecases of M.2 devices, so that you don’t get confused when dealing with various cards and ports available out there. I’ve also designed ...

How much storage do you need in a single desktop PC? If your answer is “over 200 terabytes,” you might be interested in Ultran’s latest PCIe storage card. This gadget can cram an incredible 28—yes, ...

Carefully check your motherboard’s PCIe capabilities and BIOS bifurcation settings for its x16 slot before buying the Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5. Those determine how many of the Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5’s four ...

Forward-looking: The first commercial SSDs had capacities measuring in the gigabytes and speeds of around 50 megabytes per second. Today, companies like Sabrent and Apex Storage are developing drives ...

In brief: There will probably come a time when you need to remove, add, or swap an M.2 NVMe drive. The procedure can be a little fiddly on some motherboards, but imagine if you could do it without ...

Whether you've been building computers for some time or are looking to get involved, you have likely heard the term PCIe ...

PCIe 6.0 implementations are expandable and hierarchical with embedded switches or switch chips, allowing one root port to interface with multiple endpoints (such as storage devices, Ethernet cards, ...