Finally came out motherboard which supports PCI Express 3.0 – ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3
As if unaware of each other’s efforts to introduce support for PCI Express 3.0 motherboards using the chipset Intel Z68, the ASRock and MSI vying go on about “release of the world’s first motherboard with support for Interface PCI Express 3.0″. While MSI has announced only the appropriate motherboard officially, ASRock has the company started selling its product. At least in Japan this week, board ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3 been seen in local stores.
This board also has three slots PCI Express x16, but only two of them are ready to operate in PCI Express 3.0. To do this, as has been repeatedly noted, will require a processor generation Ivy Bridge in the LGA 1155, which supports the interface initially. Of course, the appropriate video card is also required because the existing discrete graphics solutions support only PCI Express 2.0. Will there be released in 2012, AMD and NVIDIA graphics card to support PCI Express 3.0 initially, you can not say for sure.
As is the case with the product MSI, two slots PCI Express 3.0 x16 only one willing to work at full speed, the second will run in PCI Express x8, even if the first slot is free. If you take both slots, then a bunch of video cards will work under the scheme “x8 + x8″. Finally, the third PCI Express x16 slot only matches the specifications of PCI Express 2.0, and its mode of operation is limited to PCI Express x4.
ASRock explains that the motherboard to be able to work with PCI Express 3.0 should use the appropriate circuit switches. If we restrict the previous generation of switches, even in the presence of processor and graphics card Ivy Bridge Interface PCI Express 3.0 bus speed will be limited to the specifications PCI Express 2.0. It is not hard to guess whose garden is addressed to the stone …
By the way, the board Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3 located an additional bridge PLX PEX8608, which allows multiple devices to use PCI Express x1 channels simultaneously, even though the chipset Z68 is not provided. The board supports all types of SLI and CrossFire, as well as technology Lucid Virtu and Intel Smart Response. The cost of new items on the Japanese market is $ 371. Is it worth such a “future proof” of these funds, each buyer should decide on their own.
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