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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: oppp7 on October 25, 2010, 10:30:14 am

Title: Where HAVE GIGABYTE motherboard support - PCI-E 2.1
Post by: oppp7 on October 25, 2010, 10:30:14 am

Where HAVE GIGABYTE motherboard support - PCI-E 2.1
for  HD 6850 ?
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3614#ov

Title: Re: Where HAVE GIGABYTE motherboard support - PCI-E 2.1
Post by: absic on October 25, 2010, 10:48:26 am

Hi Oppp7,

I don't think any of the Gigabyte Motherboards actually have PCI-E 2.1 but you would have to check with GTTS for a definitive answer on that.

However, a quick through Wikipedia shows that: PCI Express 2.1
PCI Express 2.1 supports a large proportion of the management, support, and troubleshooting systems planned to be fully implemented in PCI Express 3.0. However, the speed is the same as PCI Express 2.0. Most motherboards sold currently come with PCI Express 2.0 connectors.

You can check through the full item here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

It seems that PCI-E2.1 is a step towards PCI-E3.0