Asus GEN 3 boards

Vimes said:
Apart from the pretty gold writing on the box "Gen 3" what is the difference between that board and this one...

http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8Z68_DELUXE/

....after you update the BIOS wouldn't it be the same thing, minus the pretty gold writing..?

As noted here...

http://event.asus.com/2011/mb/PCIe3_Ready/

and demonstrated here on a Gen 3 board...


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No you can update the bios to support Ivy bridge cpu's. But you can't update an ic2 switch to ic3.
Non sli boards may be able to handle pci-e3 with an ic2 switch though.
 
Davefran said:
No you can update the bios to support Ivy bridge cpu's. But you can't update an ic2 switch to ic3.
Non sli boards may be able to handle pci-e3 with an ic2 switch though.
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You beat me to it

Thats what I was going to say, basically a bit more future proof

Im hoping there is a bios update for the P67 maximus iv to support 22nm
 
Davefran said:
No you can update the bios to support Ivy bridge cpu's. But you can't update an ic2 switch to ic3.
Non sli boards may be able to handle pci-e3 with an ic2 switch though.
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delpy8 said:
You beat me to it

Thats what I was going to say, basically a bit more future proof

Im hoping there is a bios update for the P67 maximus iv to support 22nm
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... in the above link that I noted it shows at the bottom of the page two separate tables. The boards that are currently out which can support both PCI 3 and the 22nm CPU's and then a list of boards which can support the 22nm CPU's only...

Current non-SLI LGA1155 motherboards from ASUS can also take advantage of PCI Express 3.0. The list below details the minimum BIOS version that adds support for next generation Intel 22nm processors.
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So, for example, the following board with a P67 chipset...

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8P67_REV_31/

..will support the PCI 3 std and the 22nm CPU's, accoding to that list.

EDIT: To show the image from the top of the linked page to illustrate that Asus themselves are advertising a P67 board with full PCI 3 and 22nm CPU support...



the second board from the left P867 (REV 3.1)
 
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Vimes said:
... in the above link that I noted it shows at the bottom of the page two separate tables. The boards that are currently out which can support both PCI 3 and the 22nm CPU's and then a list of boards which can support the 22nm CPU's only...

So, for example, the following board with a P67 chipset...

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8P67_REV_31/

..will support the PCI 3 std and the 22nm CPU's, accoding to that list.

EDIT: To show the image from the top of the linked page to illustrate that Asus themselves are advertising a P67 board with full PCI 3 and 22nm CPU support...






Yip I see that but it does not show under the specification of that board or Cpu compatability heres hoping but knowing Asus they will make you buy a new board



the second board from the left P867 (REV 3.1)
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Just had a look on Asus site and there is a new bios for max iv extreme to support

22nm so thats good now I wonder how much these cpu,s will cost
 
I saw that one, glad that you took a peep otherwise I was going to post the link :D

Whilst the Maximus IV Extreme (P67) seems to get the 22nm support it is not on the list for being PCI 3 ready.

But as there are zero PCi 3 GPU's etc or 22nm CPU's on the market for quite a while it does not seem to matter.

The point that I was making is that there are quite a number of boards from Asus, and MSI and Gigabyte, already out on the market that might also be compatible, albeit MSI made a bit of a fuss (which might be correct) over Gigabytes PCI 3 claims, already.

My thread got closed when I posted about MSI's claims about Gigabytes PCI 3 boards on the market today actually not being compatible.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18315735&highlight=startername_vimes

When the actual hardware is out it will be then to decide just how correct the above assurances were.
 
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Vimes said:
... in the above link that I noted it shows at the bottom of the page two separate tables. The boards that are currently out which can support both PCI 3 and the 22nm CPU's and then a list of boards which can support the 22nm CPU's only...

So, for example, the following board with a P67 chipset...

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8P67_REV_31/

..will support the PCI 3 std and the 22nm CPU's, accoding to that list.

EDIT: To show the image from the top of the linked page to illustrate that Asus themselves are advertising a P67 board with full PCI 3 and 22nm CPU support...



the second board from the left P867 (REV 3.1)
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And the point of this post is ?


Yes we know the brand new boards just released (with an ic3 switch) will support Pci-e3.

I'm talking about all the older revision boards, you can't get Pci-e3 by updating the bios alone.
If these older revision boards could run Pci-e3, they wouldn't have to rush out new revisions would they !!!

If you want to check your board, Gen3 boards will start with 3

 
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