Yesterday GIGABYTE announced that their 6 Series range of motherboards were ready to support native PCIe Gen 3 as well as the next generation Intel 22nm CPUs.
Here is what they announced:
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.
To future proof your GIGABYTE 6 series motherboard, please download and install the latest BIOS update for your motherboard model from the GIGABYTE website: www.gigabyte.com.
GIGABYTE 22nm CPU and PCIe 3.0 Ready Motherboards
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Chipset |
Model |
BIOS |
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Z68 |
G1.Sniper 2 |
F3 |
|
Z68X-UD7-B3 |
F8 |
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Z68XP-UD5 |
F3 |
|
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Z68X-UD5-B3 |
F8 |
|
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Z68XP-UD4 |
F3 |
|
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Z68X-UD4-B3 |
F8 |
|
|
Z68XP-UD3P |
F4 |
|
|
Z68X-UD3P-B3 |
F6 |
|
|
Z68XP-UD3R |
F3 |
|
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Z68X-UD3R-B3 |
F4 |
|
|
Z68X-UD3H-B3 |
F7 |
|
|
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Z68XP-UD3 |
F4 |
|
Z68MX-UD2H-B3 |
F8 |
|
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Z68A-D3H-B3 |
F9 |
|
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Z68MA-D2H-B3 |
F7 |
|
|
P67/H67 |
P67A-UD7-B3 |
F5 |
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P67A-UD5-B3 |
F6 |
|
|
P67A-UD4-B3 |
F5 |
|
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P67A-UD3P-B3 |
F5 |
|
|
P67X-UD3R-B3 |
F4 |
|
|
P67A-UD3R-B3 |
F5 |
|
|
P67X-UD3-B3 |
F5 |
|
|
P67A-UD3-B3 |
F5 |
|
|
P67A-D3-B3 |
F4 |
|
|
P67-DS3-B3 |
F2 |
|
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PH67A-UD3-B3 |
F5 |
|
|
PH67-UD3-B3 |
F4 |
|
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PH67-DS3-B3 |
F2 |
|
|
PH67A-D3-B3 |
F4 |
|
|
H67A-D3H-B3 |
F5b |
|
|
H67M-D2-B3 |
F5a |
|
|
H67N-USB3-B3 |
F6e |
|
|
H61 |
H61M-D2P-B3 |
F6f |
|
H61M-D2-B3 |
F7e |
|
|
H61M-S2V-B3 |
F5g |
|
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H61M-USB3-B3 |
F8h |
|
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H61M-S2-B3 |
F2h |
|
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H61N-USB3-B3 |
F2c |
|
|
HA65M-D2H-B3 |
F8o |
|
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P61-S3-B3 |
F4c |
|
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P61-DS3-B3 |
F3b |
|
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P6-USB3-B3 |
F8d |
|
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PA65-UD3-B3 |
F8c |
