does I7 3930K support PCI 3.0 ?

[brandon888]

does I7 3930K support PCI 3.0 ? and i have Asus P9X79 mobo ... can i use PCI 3.0 on video cards ? or it will be limited to pci 2.0 16X ?

 

[ShintaiDK]

PCIe 3.0 aint officially supported. But there are hacks to enable it on some systems.

 

[brandon888]

PCIe 3.0 aint officially supported. But there are hacks to enable it on some systems.

if my cpu or any cpu on sandy bridge-e does not support PCI 3.0 .. then why asus write that my mobo does ???

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_2011/P9X79/

it this just a marketing trick ??? ;/

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

According to the Data sheet for the Intel® Core™ i7 processors for socket 2011, the processor supports upto 40 lanes of PCI-E with speeds up to 8GT/s (Data sheet page 9). A PCI-E lane with speeds of 8GT/s just happens to be the speed of PCI-E 3.0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

When the chips were first released they didn't list PCI-E 3.0 but they all support it now.

 

[brandon888]

According to the Data sheet for the Intel® Core™ i7 processors for socket 2011, the processor supports upto 40 lanes of PCI-E with speeds up to 8GT/s (Data sheet page 9). A PCI-E lane with speeds of 8GT/s just happens to be the speed of PCI-E 3.0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

When the chips were first released they didn't list PCI-E 3.0 but they all support it now.

yeah i read wiki to and then saw on intels offical site that i7 3930K supports 2. 0 ... that confused me now it's clear .. thank you .. so it supports ^_^

 

[moonbogg]

My cards run at 2.0 so I say the 3.0 claim is marketing stretching of the facts OR straight bs. They said I got it, but I ain't got it.

 

[brandon888]

My cards run at 2.0 so I say the 3.0 claim is marketing stretching of the facts OR straight bs. They said I got it, but I ain't got it.

Crap :/ hope i cna survive 700 series or even 800 mid range gpus ....

 

[brandon888]

Crap :/ hope i can survive 700 series or even 800 mid range gpus ....

Thnx God even 680 Tri sli will be bottlenecked not much with I7 3930k

 

[exar333]

With the right BIOS version it will run 3.0 just fine. Mine does...

 

[brandon888]

With the right BIOS version it will run 3.0 just fine. Mine does...

update bios from asus offical site yes ?

 

[brandon888]

or there is a other ways to do this

 

[moonbogg]

To be honest, pci-3.0 won't even be needed for another generation or two if you have pci-e 2.0 anyway. PCI-E 2.0 x16 is as fast as 3.0 @ x8. All the new ivy bridge boards have SLI running at 8x speeds, so you are at least as good as they are for SLI and noone is worried about those boards not being good enough for next gen cards.

 

[brandon888]

To be honest, pci-3.0 won't even be needed for another generation or two if you have pci-e 2.0 anyway. PCI-E 2.0 x16 is as fast as 3.0 @ x8. All the new ivy bridge boards have SLI running at 8x speeds, so you are at least as good as they are for SLI and noone is worried about those boards not being good enough for next gen cards.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1921/3/


here is X79 system and card operates with pci 3.0 ;/




i agree with you .. pci 3.0 8X is same as pci 2.0 16 X ... there is no difference ... well ... that is good if 2.0 will handle even maxwell

 

[AdamK47]

PCI-E 3.0 is enabled by default when using Asus X79 boards with AMD 7XXX series cards. On any X79 board with GTX 6XX cards the PCI-E will be limited to 2.0 by default. Nvidia has a utility that can force 3.0 speeds, but it's dependant on the quality of the motherboard whether it will work or not.

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answ...force-600-series-gen3-support-on-x79-platform

 

[moonbogg]

PCI-E 3.0 is enabled by default when using Asus X79 boards with AMD 7XXX series cards. On any X79 board with GTX 6XX cards the PCI-E will be limited to 2.0 by default. Nvidia has a utility that can force 3.0 speeds, but it's dependant on the quality of the motherboard whether it will work or not.

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answ...force-600-series-gen3-support-on-x79-platform

I read that somewhere. Its just that its not worth even 5 minutes of hassle for 1/2 an FPS.

 

[brandon888]

PCI-E 3.0 is enabled by default when using Asus X79 boards with AMD 7XXX series cards. On any X79 board with GTX 6XX cards the PCI-E will be limited to 2.0 by default. Nvidia has a utility that can force 3.0 speeds, but it's dependant on the quality of the motherboard whether it will work or not.

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answ...force-600-series-gen3-support-on-x79-platform

if it does not affect fps then fuck that people run 680 sli on x58 boards ... so even if 700 bottleneck me .... i don't care i will run 680 sli and use full pwoer on my cpu