Last night I had the grim task of doing a post mortem on my computer. Somehow the IDE channels are toast and the motherboard is a write off.<BR><BR>So now I need to buy a new motherboard and chip. I ...

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 ...

I have an Extreme N6600 Silencer 250MB PCI-E Asus Graphics card which I would like to install on a Asus P4C800-E motherboard but this motherboard does not have a PCI-E slot. (It has 5 PCI slots and 1 ...

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 ...

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, ...

We all love our freebies, and BFG - an NVIDIA graphics partner who has previously demonstrated its desire to look after its customers - is offering users the opportunity to swap an AGP card for a PCIe ...

Albatron has developed an AGP-to-PCI-Express (PCIe) bridge card called the ATOP, which allows users to use an AGP 8x VGA card on a PCIe motherboard. Save my User ID and Password Some subscribers ...

Hey folks, today we've got a couple of announcements from Intel. You can read about the "New WiMAX Silicon Solution" below, and you can check out the one on Dual Core PC's. Good night all :) Intel ...

Albatron Technology is enabling cash-strapped PC upgraders to use AGP 8x graphics cards with next-generation PCI Express (PCI-E) mainboards and so upgrade to PCI-E at their own pace. This type of use ...

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 ...

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), ...

Having established that the GeForce 7800 GS AGP is faster than ATI's fastest AGP part, the next question to address is: should you buy one? BFG's card goes on sale this weekend priced at US$349.99 ...