Despite the trend in shrinking PC sizes, larger desktop towers with ATX motherboards are still popular — and for fiends who want to get the most out of their systems, these have a secret weapon: PCIe ...

For a while around a quarter century ago PC motherboards came with a special slot, a little shorter than the PCI slots which ruled the roost back then, and offset from them further into the case.

There’s a little retention clamp inside the slot, which replaced simpler button ... from the part of the card closest to the rear of the PC case. The mechanism itself is a little awkward ...

or if you ever took a peek inside at your gaming PC’s motherboard, then you’ve probably seen PCIe slots. These easily recognizable slots are mostly known as the place where you plug in your ...