MSI Launches Companies First PCI Express Gen 3 Motherboard - Z68A-GD80 G3

MSI issued a press release this morning stating that the company has launched the world's first PCI Express Gen 3 motherboard with the Z68A-GD80 (G3).

 We hate to break it to them, but it's not the first as one week ago to the day ASRock announced the Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3 motherboard with two PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots! It looks like PCIe 3.0 motherboards are starting to hit the market, but sadly there are no video cards to take advantage of this new standard. Nothing wrong with future proofing your platform though!

With the Z68A-GD80 (G3) MSI introduces the world's first PCI Express Gen 3 mainboard. With ultra-high 32GB/s transfer bandwidth, PCI Express Gen 3 is 200% faster than PCI Express Gen 2. This allows the MSI Z68A-GD80 (G3) to process huge amounts of data and information, maximizing the performance of AMD CrossFireX and NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU solutions. MSI Z68A-GD80 (G3) is backwards compatible with all the devices with PCI Express 2.0 or older devices already available on the market and enhances their performance considerably. For example, PCI Express 2.0 SSD devices on MSI Z68-GD80 (G3) mainboards perform 13% faster than on competitors mainboards.