MSI Claims That Gigabyte Fakes PCIe 3.0 on Motherboards
On August 9th, 2011 Gigabyte made a claim that all of their Intel 6 series boards were 22nm CPU ready and offered native support for PCI Express Gen 3. It appears that MSI didn’t like that claim and released a presentation done by the companies engineers in Taiwan that claims only one of the 43 boards is truly PCI Express Gen 3 compliant! What board is okay? The Gigabyte G1.Sniper 2 gets the okay from MSI when it comes to offering real PCIe 3.0 support. So, according to MSI most of Gigabytes boards are far from ready for native PCIe Gen. 3 support. We posted all 14 of the presentation slides rebutting Gigabyte’s claims in our forums here.
Taipei, Taiwan, August 8, 2011 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and computing hardware solutions today announced their entire range of 6 series motherboards are ready to support the next generation Intel 22nm CPUs (LGA1155 Socket) as well as offer native support for PCI Express Gen. 3 technology, delivering maximum data bandwidth for future discrete graphics cards. Wanting to provide maximum upgradeability to customers, GIGABYTE has enabled native support for PCI Express Gen. 3 across the entire range of GIGABYTE 6 series motherboards, including the recently launched G1.Sniper 2 motherboard, when paired with Intel’s next generation 22nm CPUs. By installing the latest BIOS for their 6 series motherboards today, users can be assured they are ready to take advantage of all the performance enhancements tomorrow’s technologies have to offer.
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