MSI Calls Bluff on Gigabyte's PCIe Gen 3 Ready Claim

Vimes · 7 Sep 2011 at 19:51

Hi

For those who are interested this might be a worthy read...

http://www.techpowerup.com/151718/MSI-Calls-Bluff-on-Gigabyte-s-PCIe-Gen-3-Ready-Claim.html

...it concludes..

MSI claims that apart from the G1.Sniper 2, none of Gigabyte's so-called "Ready for Native PCIe Gen. 3" motherboards are what the badge claims to be, and that the badge is extremely misleading to buyers. Time to refill the popcorn bow

It will be interesting if it proves to be correct, or not.!

Orcvader · 7 Sep 2011 at 20:04

Well that's a very interesting read. Will have to see how gigabyte will react to this.

If those tests are true, then it's quite disappointing for Gigabyte. It would be fine if the speeds stayed on PCI-E 2.0 x16, but to fall to 1.0 x8? That doesn't sound right at all!

Also! Leaked IB CPU?

Monkeynut · 7 Sep 2011 at 20:22

This sounds like something ECS would do, not Gigabyte. Hope it gets cleared up quickly so we can be sure whether this is true, or MSI posturing and Gigabyte have found some way to work around the problem.

nightmare99 · 7 Sep 2011 at 20:42

This is what everybody was saying when GB claimed that thier boards were gen3 when they used switchers that are not rated for gen3. No big surprise really.

nshire · 7 Sep 2011 at 21:39

At least you know Giga G1 sniper 2 has gen3 approval from MSI so both manufactors agree on that.

Surveyor · 7 Sep 2011 at 22:06

nshire said:
At least you know Giga G1 sniper 2 has gen3 approval from MSI so both manufactors agree on that.

So if you want a Gigabyte board with genuine PCI-E 3.0 support all you need to do is spend £360 :eek:

You could buy an MSI and an ASRock board for that.

chigley · 7 Sep 2011 at 23:07

Greatly looking forward to Gigabyte's response to this! Was considering buying the GA-Z68XP-UD4 too following Stulid's review, but might have to rethink after this. Will have to watch this space I guess!

mickyflinn · 7 Sep 2011 at 23:13

TRADING STANDARDS.

Mr.V · 7 Sep 2011 at 23:18

mickyflinn said:
TRADING STANDARDS.

AGREED! so glad i didnt buy the gigabyte Z68 board isntead got the asrock extreme 7! phew!!!

panyan · 7 Sep 2011 at 23:19

well done MSI, doing things like this proves that you are one of the best component manufacturers around

ScottiB · 7 Sep 2011 at 23:22

Hi guys,

I heard about this last week and have been doing my own research on this since, I spoke to the engineers who carried out the tests and I looked Intel's specifications for PCI-Express Gen3 and my conclusion is that the claims are 100% accurate. The completely unescapable fact is, no-one knew what changes would need to be made to the boards until Intel realsed the information recently, this came many months after most of the boards that Gigabyte claim are compatible were designed.

We know which of our boards are Gen 3 compatible, just look for the G3 suffix, we arent going to con end users by claiming that our other boards are Gen3 ready too.

panyan · 7 Sep 2011 at 23:49

ScottiB said:
We know which of our boards are Gen 3 compatible, just look for the G3 suffix, we arent going to con end users by claiming that our other boards are Gen3 ready too.

so my p67a-gd65 B3 isnt gen3?

chaotic_uk · 7 Sep 2011 at 23:52

panyan said:
so my p67a-gd65 B3 isnt gen3?

MSI says not :confused:

ScottiB · 7 Sep 2011 at 23:54

i'm afraid not, like I said Intel only released the specs for Gen 3 a short time ago

Surveyor · 8 Sep 2011 at 00:09

panyan said:
so my p67a-gd65 B3 isnt gen3?

Why would you think it was?

Davefran · 8 Sep 2011 at 00:48

My Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 is, woohoo

Surveyor · 8 Sep 2011 at 01:01

Davefran said:
My Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 is, woohoo

All you need now is an Ivy Bridge CPU and a Gen 3 GPU.

spleenharvester · 8 Sep 2011 at 02:25

Reminds me of the fake cache on those old PCChips boards.

NathWraith · 8 Sep 2011 at 10:02

I would await a further announcement from gigabyte later this week. Thread closed for now.

MSI Calls Bluff on Gigabyte's PCIe Gen 3 Ready Claim

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