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cookiebun

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amd 7970
« on: January 01, 2012, 02:39:12 pm »
Hi I am seriously looking at one of the new AMD 7970 and might change to Gigabyte this time as i like the Motherboards but is Gigabyte brining out an AMD mobo that will have PCI Express 3.0 x16 bus.   

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geekyadz

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Re: amd 7970
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2012, 05:33:40 pm »
Only the Intel 2011 sockets at the moment will support PCI-E 3.0: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/list.aspx?s=42&jid=0&p=2&v=28
Nothing to see here, move along....

cookiebun

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Re: amd 7970
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2012, 12:35:35 am »
Hi cchaos thanks for the info is there any rumours of AMD boards doing the PCI-E 3.0. The other question is do you think my processor will cause a bottleneck with the new card if so I don't fancy Bulldozer yet, I was thinking of an AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1100T Black Edition 3.30GHz (Socket AM3) would that make a difference.
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AORUS Gaming 7 Intel Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
Corsair 32GB ( 4x8) DDR4 Vengeance LPX 3000MHz Memory
Zotac NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8GB AMP! Extreme Turing Graphics Card
Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 500GB M.2, Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1 TB