ASRock Brings PCIe 3.0 To Fatal1ty Z68

[hsakarp_kahtap]

ASRock will be the first to push out motherboards with PCIe 3.0 standard. The ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3 is equipped with two PCIe 3.0 x16 slots allowing NVIDIA Quad SLI and AMD CrossFireX. More details inside.

The Fatal1ty brand motherboard is marketed as a high end premium product. Combining the Fatal1ty with PCIe 3.0 configuration, you will get the ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3 motherboard. It comes with two PCIe 3.0 x16 slots and one PCIe 2.0 x16 slot which are capable of NVIDIA SLI and AMD CrossFireX. The PCIe 3.0 is a next generation standard for PCI Express which has twice the bandwidth compared to PCIe 2.0. Other features include the integrated PLX PEX8608 chip which enables multiple PCIe devices to run at the proper speed simultaneously and the Fatal1ty Mouse Port which has a wide range polling rate from 125Hz to 1000Hz.

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[Bearcat]

Thanks for keeping us posted with these latest hardware updates Prakash! I for one enjoy reading these posts! I wonder how long it will be before Asus has a Gen 3 PCIe motherboard?

[JayCub]

Looks a really good board, and only now im seeing some USB 3.0 hardware so i would imagine it's going to be a while before pcie 3.0 becomes the norm as it's going to be balance between performance and price... Software has alot of ground to make up, if i remember right Asrock is a breakaway company from Asus..

[Bearcat]

You make some valid points Jay, thanks for your response!