GIGABYTE Offering Pci.e 3.0 by Bios Update!!!

[sumonpathak]

Looks like gigabyte is jumping into the pcie 3 bandwagon

Wanting to provide maximum upgradeability to customers, GIGABYTE has enabled native support for PCI Express Gen. 3 across the entire range of GIGABYTE 6 series motherboards, including the recently launched G1.Sniper 2 motherboard, when paired with Intel's next generation 22nm CPUs. By installing the latest BIOS for their 6 series motherboards today, users can be assured they are ready to take advantage of all the performance enhancements tomorrow's technologies have to offer.

To future proof your GIGABYTE 6 series motherboard, please download and install the latest BIOS update for your motherboard model from the GIGABYTE website: Welcome to GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY.

Source : GIGABYTE - Media - News - Motherboard

list of motherboards

Chipset	Model	BIOS
Z68	G1.Sniper 2	F3
	GA-Z68XP-UD5	F3
	GA-Z68X-UD5-B3	F8
	GA-Z68XP-UD4	F3
	GA-Z68X-UD4-B3	F8
	GA-Z68XP-UD3P	F4
	GA-Z68X-UD3P-B3	F6
	GA-Z68XP-UD3R	F3
	GA-Z68X-UD3R-B3	F4
	GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3	F8
	GA-Z68XP-UD3	F4
	GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3	F9
	GA-Z68A-D3H-B3	F10
	GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3	F8
Chipset	Model	Bios
p67/h67	GA-P67A-UD5-B3	F6
	GA-P67A-UD4-B3	F5
	GA-P67A-UD3P-B3	F5
	GA-P67X-UD3R-B3	F4
	GA-P67A-UD3R-B3	F5
	GA-P67X-UD3-B3	F5
	GA-P67A-UD3-B3	F5
	GA-P67A-D3-B3	F4
	GA-P67-DS3-B3	F2
	GA-PH67A-UD3-B3	F5
	GA-PH67-UD3-B3	F4
	GA-PH67-DS3-B3	F2
	GA-PH67A-D3-B3	F4
	GA-H67A-D3H-B3	F5b
	GA-H67M-D2-B3	F5a
	GA-H67N-USB3-B3	F6e
Chipset	Model	BIOS
H61	GA-H61M-D2P-B3	F6
	GA-H61M-D2-B3	F7
	GA-H61M-S2V-B3	F5
	GA-H61M-USB3-B3	F8
	GA-H61M-S2-B3	F2
	GA-H61N-USB3	F2
	GA-HA65M-D2H-B3	F8
	GA-P61-S3-B3	F4
	GA-P61-DS3-B3	F3
	GA-P61-USB3-B3	F8
	GA-PA65-UD3-B3	F8

[Skud]

Does it really matter at this moment? Let the PCIe 3.0 cards come out and let them utilize the additional bandwidth first. By that time, these boards would be a bit of old, I guess.

Anyway, as a freebie it's OK.

[sumonpathak]

puts a plug on the upgrade itch syndrome
you have no idea how many ppl are rushing to buy half baked msi/whatever board just for the PCIe 3.0 ready tag..
also a simple gpu upgrade will do in the future...coz i dont think Z68 is goin out of business in the next 1.5 yrs....

[Skud]

You never know about Intel.

[sumonpathak]

they wont be shooting them selves in the foot so easily....