Carefully check your motherboard’s PCIe capabilities and BIOS bifurcation settings for its x16 slot before buying the Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5. Those determine how many of the Hyper M.2 x16 Gen5’s four ...

・Provides up to four full-speed PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 slots ・Fantastically affordable ・Auxiliary power connector and fan control header ・Very good performance ・Motherboard PCIe bifurcation capabilities ...

When Raspberry Pi released the Pi 500, as essentially an RPi 5 integrated into a chiclet keyboard, there were rumors based on ...

When you're piecing together a new PC build or planning an upgrade, every port choice feels significant. You weigh the pros and cons, staring at the back of your motherboard's I/O shield and the empty ...

The iMac isn't the only all-in-one desktop PC worthy of consideration - if you're a Windows 11 PC fan, then Asus' V400 is a ...

While older computers and storage drives might still use the common SATA or the older PCIe 3.0 interfaces to sling your bits of data around, more recent computing equipment typically supports the far ...

The Raspberry Pi 5 is the first single-board computer from Raspberry Pi to feature support for PCIe add-ons like M.2 SSDs. But since there’s no M.2 slot on the board itself you need an adaptor board ...

I’m the deputy managing editor of the hardware team at PCMag.com. Reading this during the day? Then you've caught me testing gear and editing reviews of laptops, desktop PCs, and tons of other ...

Inside modern laptops, and in the hollows of today's desktop-PC motherboards, you'll find little sticks of storage—M.2 solid-state drives—that are both smaller and faster than classic 2.5-inch SATA ...

What is the best SSD for gaming? Getting the best SSD you can afford in your PC will seriously improve your experience when using your rig, giving your system a speed boost when it's loading the ...

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I’m the deputy managing editor of the hardware team at PCMag.com. Reading this during the day? Then you've caught me testing gear and editing reviews of laptops, desktop PCs, and tons of other ...