New Build in two months

Jony27 · 7 Aug 2011 at 12:07

stulid said:
Its a 3.5" drive bay that has USB3.0.

The Gen3 supports PCI-E3.0 for next gen graphic cards

but dont you need Ivy Bridge to utilise/use the PCIe 3.0 GPUs?

stulid · 7 Aug 2011 at 12:19

That too.

Pickman · 7 Aug 2011 at 13:37

Jony27 said:
but dont you need Ivy Bridge to utilise/use the PCIe 3.0 GPUs?

So, does anyone know if the PCIe 3.0 be useful before IvyBridge or if this motherboard will be fully compatible with Ivy?

Jony27 · 7 Aug 2011 at 13:37

it should be fully compatible with both Ivy and PCIe 3.0 cards.

stulid · 7 Aug 2011 at 13:42

Pickman said:
So, does anyone know if the PCIe 3.0 be useful before IvyBridge or if this motherboard will be fully compatible with Ivy?

You can still use a pci3.0 card without ivybridge and in any other board it just works at 2.0

Pickman · 7 Aug 2011 at 13:48

Jony27 said:
it should be fully compatible with both Ivy and PCIe 3.0 cards.

That would be most wonderful. I am thinking if I grab one of these and an i5k then fairly high end 7xxx card when they come out I can grab and Ivy and a second card in a year or two and still feel like king of the hill.

Sorry to the OP for a slight highjack.

Jony27 · 7 Aug 2011 at 13:50

lololol, ive always thought i was talking to the OP, didnt realises it was someone else

Pickman · 7 Aug 2011 at 13:58

Jony27 said:
lololol, ive always thought i was talking to the OP, didnt realises it was someone else

Sorry about that =)

Tiberia · 7 Aug 2011 at 16:50

no probs, started this post to get a discussion going that I can base my build on.