Gigabyte Bakes Native PCI-E Gen. 3 and Ivy Bridge Support into Latest BIOS for 6 Series Motherboards
Gigabyte Bakes Native PCI-E Gen. 3 and Ivy Bridge Support into Latest BIOS for 6 Series Motherboards
Posted 08/09/2011 at 6:42am
| by Paul Lilly
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It's impossible to outrun technology, though updated drivers, software, and firmware can keep your gear current for as long as possible. That typically means you have to rely on hardware manufacturers to play ball, and Gigabyte 6 Series motherboard owners will be happy to know Gigabyte is keeping them in the game with significant BIOS updates for its entire 6 Series mobo line.
Gigabyte's latest 6 Series BIOS updates add native support for PCI Express Gen. 3 technology, giving owners warm fuzzies knowing that future discrete graphics cards will have access to all the bandwidth they need. In addition, the new BIOSes support Intel's 22nm Ivy Bridge processors.
The list of 6 Series motherboards is long (15 Z68 boards, 17 P67/H67 boards, and 11 H61 boards for a total of 43 motherboards in all), so rather than post them all here, we'll refer you to this link. Protip: If you own of these motherboards and plan to upgrade to an Ivy Bridge processor, flash your BIOS before dropping in the new CPU.
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492702404
August 29, 2011 at 12:04am
Gigabyte should also take care of Sandy Bridge CPU. My GBT Z68-UD7-B3 can’t finish 3DMark11 with Core i7 2600K and AMD HD 5770 VGA by latest bios (F8) which claimed support 22nm Ive Bridge and PCIE Gen.3. All bios setting were default, this was very strange. However, the older version bios (F7/F6) are OK. This situation is not allowed when you assert your boards support new function, what will most end user think when they still use Sandy Bridge CPU?
Be careful when you update this new bios.....it may not good for your system….
The fail screen
http://www.hotimg.com/direct/gHsRU7r.JPG
Danthrax66
August 09, 2011 at 3:35pm
So my z68x-UD5 has PCIe 3 slots??? I don't understand how that is a bios feature and not a hardware feature...
maddingo
August 09, 2011 at 8:48am
lol lol lol.... i'm confused I have a Z68X-UD3-B3 and it isn't on that list however the F6 bios for it came out a week ago that offered 22nm cpu support... confused or annoyed one of the two.....so i suppose maybe this board get the ivy upgrade but now the PCIe gen 3?
Humpfester
August 12, 2011 at 1:13pm
After finishing my new build just four days ago Thanks to MPC and thinking of getting ahead a little in this tech race after 7 years since my last build with a ASUS SABERTOOTH P67, Intel i7 2600K, 16GB Corsair vengeance DDR3, Corsair 600T, Corsair AX1200, 2 ASUS GTX570 , 1 Corsair 120 GB GT SSD, Corsair H100, 1 WD 1TB Caviar Black HD,
I'm hoping ASUS does this, really.
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