I've got an old desktop that I'm keeping alive to act as a fileserver. I've always just used the integrated video (VGA-only), which has always been good enough, since I'm not running anything 3D.

So in theory PCI-e is backwards compatible, i.e. that if it fits physically, it'll run electronically. In reality, we hear stories all the time about the x16 slots not working for anything other than ...

Over the past few years, high-end PCs have come to be associated with PCI Express 5.0, the infrastructure that connects graphics cards and SSDs. That’s close to changing, as the PCI Special Interest ...