Any AM3+ mobos with PCIe 3.0 coming?

[Rhezuss]

Just want to check if any of you heard about some new AM3+ motherboards coming that would have PCIe 3.0?

I know the difference is minimal at best but new AM3+ mobos would probably mean new AMD chipsets (1070/1090X/1090FX...?!!??!).

I'm just checking to upgrade since the Vishera is not that bad and would be a nice upgrade from a Phenom II quad-core.

 

[zokudu]

Interested in this too. Want to pick up an FX-8320 and AM3+ board but PCIe 3 is the only thing stopping me from getting it today.

 

[Kuschelweich]

Nothing for the foreseeable future from what I can gather, can't fine anything about new chipsets coming out either. Perhaps it won't come till the next socket?

The ironic thing is Radeon 7 series supports it, but no AMD motherboards do . Since their GPUs support it, It makes sense it's somewhere in the road map.

Not that it makes a difference regardless, as I don't believe X16 PCIe2.0 is even close to being saturated atm.

 

[Durvelle27]

why does PCIe 3 matter to you it doesn't give better that much improvement or performance over 2.0 x16

 

[zokudu]

Because allegedly Steamroller is supposed to be AM3+, so if you intend to upgrade your AMD system regularly it may be 3 years or so before you need to change motherboards. It doesn't hurt to be ready for that.

If it's not there then which AM3+ boards are you guys looking to get?

 

[VirtualLarry]

The ASRock 990FX Extreme 4 board is nice.

Plenty of expansion slots, front USB 3.0, even comes with something that mounts in an external 3.5" bay to give you two USB 3.0 on front, even if your case doesn't have front-panel USB 3.0.

 

[Magic Carpet]

why does PCIe 3 matter to you it doesn't give better that much improvement or performance over 2.0 x16

PCI-E 1.1 is barely saturated and 2.0 offers double the bandwidth. Next, I want to see PCI-E 3.0 optimized video cards to help boost hardware sales

"Nice to have" is common sense

 

[Soulkeeper]

i've heard it's a limitation of the HT link keeping them from putting PCIE 3.0 on
simply not enough bandwidth for it

maybe they are holding off untill ddr4 before refreshing their chipsets ?

 

[Soulkeeper]

why does PCIe 3 matter to you it doesn't give better that much improvement or performance over 2.0 x16

which benchmark is this ?
nevermind found it

 

[zokudu]

Gotta say, on the "cheapo" boards, I'm leaning towards the Gigabyte. Any other thoughts on these 4 boards?

 

[Jimzz]

As said why do you even care or want it? 2 high end cards in SLI won't kill a PCIe2.0 and how many people are even running that?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Besides the speeds of PCI-E 3.0, you have to look at the lane count too.

IB has PCI-E 3.0, true. But only x16 lanes coming off of the CPU.

AMD has 990FX chipset, which only has PCI-E 2.0. But it has x32 or more lanes. So each PCI-E x16 2.0 slot has full speed.

So what you really want the speed for, Crossfire or SLI, the AMD is actually equal to IB here.

PCI-E 3.0 x8 == PCI-E 2.0 x16.

 

[Rhezuss]

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16813131873

For the price this board look really nice!