Does a Gigabyte GA 970A UD3 support PCI-E 3.0

[Lazar_99]

Do a gigabyte GA 970A UD3 and phenom II X4 965 support PCI-E 3.0? I mean will i be able to use a graphics card like a GTX 660ti without a bottleneck?

 

[sykozis]

No, there are currently no AMD chipsets that support PCIe 3.0 natively.

PCIe 2.0 will not "bottleneck" any current graphics card.

 

[Lazar_99]

No, there are currently no AMD chipsets that support PCIe 3.0 natively.

PCIe 2.0 will not "bottleneck" any current graphics card.

So i would be able to use the entire power of the GTX 660ti?

 

[Lazar_99]

Best answer selected by lazar_99.

 

[sykozis]

So i would be able to use the entire power of the GTX 660ti?

So long as the processor doesn't bottleneck it, yes.

 

[Ananasen]

I've recently ordered some parts for my next build.

Among them.
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
Gigabyte GTX660
Amd 965 phenom BE

When I'm reading this I get kinda nervous. Will this fail? And also, pci-e 3.0 which apparently can send x32. What does it really mean? What is it that it sends in terms of speed?

 

[sykozis]

For AMD based systems PCIe 3.0 means nothing. AMD does not currently have a chipset that supports PCIe 3.0.

PCIe 3.0, compared to PCIe 2.0 is, for the most part, a difference in available bandwidth per lane and reduced overhead for communications. There are, of course, other underlying differences but they don't have a noticeable impact on consumers.

PCIe communication bus is split into lanes. Each lane carries a certain amount of data as defined by the applicable spec. For each expansion slot, you have from 1 to 16 lanes depending on the exact expansion slot. A PCIe controller with 32 lanes (PCIe x32) allows for 2, PCIe x16 slots or any combination of expansion slots totaling 32 lanes.