Dear Linus:

[TopNotchPCLol]

I saw your 8350 video. I do believe that Intel does have an edge when it comes to gaming. However I did learn something new today that was not mentioned in the video.

Apparently current AMD AM3+ Motherboards only support PCI 2.0. NOT 3.0. I have seen this twice today, and Asus does have another motherboard coming out that does support it. SABERTOOTH 990FX/GEN3 R2.0

http://event.asus.com/2011/mb/TUF/product_990FXGEN3R2_spec.htm

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_990FXGEN3_R20/

And will we are at it, is there anyway to decrease the interference between the RAM, and the CPU? I want to be buy the Vesta FXN2, and swap the board out with ASUS newest sabertooth board, and max out the RAM. (I want to OC to 5.1 GHZ).

[aaronu]

well i looked up if there was anything much differences from 3.0 and 2.0. the norm is not much. probably 1 fps difference. as 3.0 graphics card there not going ti be many out there yet. maybe next year. but for now its not relevant

[EChondo]

As Aaronu has said, the performance differences between PCI-E 2.0 and 3.0 are negligible at best. We are talking at most 5% differences in performance and that is when you are using a lot of the GPUs memory for higher resolution gameplay.

PCI-E 3.0 doubles the bandwidth that PCI-E 2.0 provides, but that doubling of bandwidth does not help at all, it is just a new standard that motherboard and GPU manufacturers are implementing early on so we don't have to deal with the change later on when it is needed.

[TechFan@ic]

PCIe 3 is "sometimes" beneficial when you're doing multi GPU setups it's not of much use outside of that usage scenario .

[Glenwing]

PCIe 3.0 x8 = PCIe 2.0 x16. As you can see there is no performance difference (This is with a Radeon HD 7970).

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[mgsstar]

PCI-E 2.0 and PCI-E 3.0 performance difference is very little so it wouldn't matter for now if it is a PCI-E 2.0 slot or a PCI-E 3.0 slot.