Well I feel like the village idiot. Despite reading clear, plain-English warnings against 'fake-bridged' AGP+PCIe combo motherboards, I went ahead and bought an ECS K8T890-A motherboard and AMD Athlon ...

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 ...

Serial PCI Express is usurping the parallel AGP (accelerated graphics port) in graphics as just one part of a broad industry trend toward serialization. For example, USB replaced the parallel and ...

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 ...

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. Some subscribers prefer to save their log-in ...

Also on ECS's stand at CeBit, you'll find a mainboard called K8T890-A940, which uses VIA's K8T890 core logic (funnily enough!) to bring PCI Express and AGP to AMD's new socket and processor family.

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), ...

Conforming to PCI SIG specifications, the 6325 PCI Express card edge connector allows user upgrades and provides bandwidth support beyond the capacity of PCI-slot and AGP connectors. The connector ...

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 ...

PCI Express is a new interconnect standard that provides a serial replacement for the PCI, AGP, and PCI-X buses, which are commonly used in computer and embedded systems. The market has embraced the ...

Can you really believe it's been six years since we first saw PCI-Express? Even PCI-Express 2.0 has been around since 2007, and three years later, here we are with the next generation ratified and ...