Motherboards any AMD based boards planning on having PCI-E 3.0??

im working on my case build, and am waiting for Bulldozer gen2 [Q1 2012] so i was wondering if anyone here had any news on if there are plans to have an AMD based board that will support PCI-e gen3 out by then? preferably an ROG?

if there arent or there isnt any news by xmas, then ill just go back to the crosshair v formula, and some gtx590s.......

i dont want to be spending upwards of $1600 USD on technology thats about to be shadowed. thats a lot of money for something that will no longer be the best you know....

any word at all? thnx

 

990FX doesn't support it so no, not until 2012 sorry.

Using PCI-E Gen3 switches doesn't count as PCI-E 3

ROG's board for this year is the Crosshair 5 Formula. We're evaluating a special Bulldozer UEFI right now, that will be ready on the CPU release.

 

How long will it be until having a v3 slot will actually make a difference?

 

Dam Bindibadgi and his Bulldozer "NDA" ...

 

PCI Gen3 isn't going to make any difference, GPUs don't even saturate the PCIe 2 x16 slots yet.

 

Thats what I thought...the PCIE 2 standard is still to be staurated...so why bother with 3? I think people like the baord to be all "3"...sata 3, usb 3 and pcie 3....great for the marketing department.

 

Bandwidth-wise there's just no reason for v3 right now. It's all just sales tactics.

 

I think the point is that there is no need for it now, but there probably (hopefully) will be soon.

 

What will be so special about it over the existing UEFI?

Can we have a SS to wet our appetites?