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

[Vimes]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[Surveyor]

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

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

 

[chigley]

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]

TRADING STANDARDS.

 

[Mr.V]

TRADING STANDARDS.

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

 

[panyan]

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

 

[ScottiB]

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]

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]

so my p67a-gd65 B3 isnt gen3?

MSI says not

 

[ScottiB]

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

 

[Surveyor]

so my p67a-gd65 B3 isnt gen3?

Why would you think it was?

 

[Davefran]

My Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 is, woohoo

 

[Surveyor]

My Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 is, woohoo

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

 

[spleenharvester]

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

 

[NathWraith]

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