Broadwell thanks for your help, my friend.
Gigabyte i've been reading up about the sata3 /usb - pcie x8 nerf, what happens if i throw a gen3 card into this board, still gen2 x8 speeds?
On the mobo's info page it says it supports gen3 cpu and gpu.
'Designed for PCI Express Gen.3 Support'
http://uk.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3912#ovI hope the g1 sniper3 doesn't have this crappy 'feature', use sata3 and your pcie speeds get nerfed to x8, what?
uPDATE:
After having re-flashed then familiarized myself more with th bios i've managed to optimize it nice like it was before.
After installing my sata3 drive a few weeks ago my gaming performance dropped and boot up times got horribly slow, however that's now been fixed by adjusting some bios settings, so some things must have been set wrong or enabled when they shouldn't have been.
Still on x8 speed but i have my games running nice and snappy again.
(i disabled the marvell controller and things like that).
but still, can this board run a gen3 gpu @ gen3 pcie speed?