pci express

Hands-on with the Asus EN9800 GX2: Faster than death

Crave Want twin graphics cards, but your motherboard only has one PCI Express slot? We think we may have found the solution. We've just been playing with the Asus EN9800 GX2, a graphics adaptor that combines two separate graphics processing units in a...

Tags: core, anti, frames, graphics

4 April 2008, 11:36

Top ten obsolete ports

Crave As is traditional, processors were replaced with quicker ones, which was fine, because our motherboards would just accept a new chip, but suddenly the graphics industry decided it would move over to PCI-Express.

25 March 2008, 11:02

Wired2Fire Diablo Ultima: £699 gaming demon

Crave There's plenty of space to upgrade with extra drives and the Asus P5KC motherboard comes with a second PCI Express slot, so you can add a second graphics card if you're uber-l33t. The demise of the desktop PC has long been foretold.

Tags: laptops, graphics card, diablo, pci express

26 March 2008, 11:30

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3800: Laptops get graphics hotness

Crave ATI is calling it XGP (External Graphics Platform) Technology, and you'll need a laptop with a special PCI Express 2.0 port to use it. Several new developments in the laptops graphics department from ATI and parent company AMD were announced at...

Tags: hd, laptop, dedicated, battery

5 June 2008, 9:08

Dual Freeview tuner: Terratec Cinergy 2400i DT

Crave It's one of the first cards we've seen that uses a PCI Express x1 connection, so you'll need a fairly modern PC to make use of it. Most of us know television is bad for us. Daytime TV in particular is single-handedly responsible for the mass...

Tags: terratec, freeview, pci express, television

27 January 2006, 9:52

Chris's Christmas shopping: Apple Power Mac quad-core G5

Crave But can you put a price on two dual-core 2.5GHz PowerPC processors, PCI-Express expansion slots and an Nvidia GeForce 6600 graphics card? This is the first installment in a series of posts in which I, your favourite Crave reporter, will spend £5...

Tags: apple uk, core, christmas, crave

1 December 2005, 13:30