MSI officially confirmed the launch of Z68A-GD80 (G3) motherboard, the solution will get in a variety of computer stores later this month. Thus, MSI is the first manufacturer to offer customers a motherboard with PCI Express 3.0 support. A new generation of interface shows almost two-fold advantage over PCI Express 2.0, but it is worth remembering that the motherboard will power only the 22-nm processors Ivy Bridge, which will be available no earlier than next spring.
We already reported the technical specifications of this motherboard , but details about PCI Express slots modes in that time were not known. There are just two of the three PCI Express x16 which will work in the regime 3.0. It should be noted that in the case of video connection to the first PCI Express x16 slot 16 lines will be allocated . If user uses two slots PCI Express 3.0 x16, then each will get 8 lines, while the second PCI Express x16 slot can not support more than 8 lines, even if connecting to a single video card. The third PCI Express x16 slot supports only the bus version 2.0, and will use only 8 lines PCI Express. Related Products :
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