Ars Technica

Can I use a PCIe x8 card in a x16 "graphics" slot?

I'm going to be buying some of these A8N-VM CSM motherboards. I'd like to pair them with the new Areca x8 SATA card. Now, I know they are supposed to be compatible, technically, but Asus site says ...
PCGamesN

Let's kill off the PCIe slot - we need a better way to install a graphics card

Be honest, when was the last time you installed anything in a PCIe slot that wasn't a graphics card? We still indulge in this charade, where ATX motherboards come equipped with several 1x and 4x slots ...
Digital Trends

If graphics cards don’t need it, what’s the point of PCIExpress 4?

PCIe 4 is finally here. AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 3000 generation of CPUs are backwards compatible with most first and second-generation, 300 and 400 series motherboards. But the 500 series, and more ...
HotHardware

Intel Arc B580 Battlemage Graphics Card Spotted With Dual M.2 SSD Slots

Typically, graphics cards use PCI Express x16 slots. That's a PCIe slot configured with sixteen individual data lanes. These data lanes are physical connections, and that's why an "x16" slot is so ...