I'm considering installing my (to be bought) Nvidia RTX 3080 horizontally in a (to be bought) Fractal Design Define 7 Light. I'll likely be using a (to be bought) X570 motherboard, maybe a B550. I'd ...

I see and have owned a bunch of x16 risers that are fat ribbon cables. Is there something that bundles the fibers together so that it's a cable instead of a ribbon cable? I would like to thread it ...

Building your own desktop computer is all about performance. Actually, that’s a lie; for a substantial portion of the community, the look and aesthetic quality of a PC and its components is at least ...

Cases and cooling specialist Fractal Design has confirmed that buyers of its sleek Ridge small form factor (SFF) case may have issues using the bundled PCIe Gen 4.0 riser card. The firm is busy ...

When you plug in a USB or Thunderbolt cable to your computer, that connection is often being routed to a small chip that then translates that data into a PCI Express signal for the final connection to ...

PCIe 4.0 sounds exciting—it’s the first big change to the interface since 2010. But as always, the questions of who can get it (and who can’t), and who really needs it, are more nuanced than you’d ...