Pcie4.0

b.schesch · July 24, 2015

Hello guys will the next z170mobo have some pcie 4.0 for the future gpus.

Thx for answer

WereCat · July 24, 2015

hi, no

Hunter7263 · July 24, 2015

Hello guys will the next z170mobo have some pcie 4.0 for the future gpus.

Thx for answer

Not that it matters. I dont think that GPU manufacturers will switch from pcie 3.0 any time soon even if they technically can. You can use a 3.0 in a 4.0 port but not the reverse. Given that they arent anywhere close to using up the 3.0 bandwidth (and I mean no where close they currently sometimes have problems saturating 4 lanes sometimes except in more industrial computational applications where they would use quadros and firepros anyway which they could put the 4.0 on) there is no need.

ThE_MarD · July 24, 2015

Heyyo,

Lol, even if it doesn't? Who cares. Current GPUs can't even max out PCI-E 3.0... heck, I don't even know if they can max out PCI-E 2.0.

SATA is the part of the motherboard that needs upgrading... look at SATA 6Gbit... it has already gotten to the point of saturation.

Hieb · July 24, 2015

SATA is the part of the motherboard that needs upgrading... look at SATA 6Gbit... it has already gotten to the point of saturation.

It wouldn't bother me if SATA didn't advance any time soon. We need faster, cheaper mass storage first... so I'm still waiting on SSD prices to drop and HDDs to get faster. I'm not bothered by 6Gbps since with my SSD every application loads virtually instantly, and my system goes from powered off to desktop before my monitor even wakes up (aka less than 6 seconds).

Seems right now a lot of the standards are ahead of the mainstream components by a large margin.

FLUFFYJELLO · July 24, 2015

It wouldn't bother me if SATA didn't advance any time soon. We need faster, cheaper mass storage first... so I'm still waiting on SSD prices to drop and HDDs to get faster. I'm not bothered by 6Gbps since with my SSD every application loads virtually instantly, and my system goes from powered off to desktop before my monitor even wakes up (aka less than 6 seconds).

Seems right now a lot of the standards are ahead of the mainstream components by a large margin.

^ pretty much this. If your PC can go from off to login screen before your monitor can even wake up you're good to go; which I can imagine is the case for anyone using a decent SSD. I just want SSD's to be cheaper than 30 cents/GB. Even 15 cents/GB I'd be alright with to be honest. It doesn't cost companies nearly as much to manufacture now that the process is streamlined so much.