[PR] GIGABYTE Announces Entire 6 Series Ready to Support Native PCIe Gen. 3

Future Proof Your Platform for Next Generation Intel 22nm CPUs

Taipei, Taiwan, August 8, 2011 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and computing hardware solutions today announced their entire range of 6 series motherboards are ready to support the next generation Intel 22nm CPUs (LGA1155 Socket) as well as offer native support for PCI Express Gen. 3 technology, delivering maximum data bandwidth for future discrete graphics cards.

Wanting to provide maximum upgradeability to customers, GIGABYTE has enabled native support for PCI Express Gen. 3 across the entire range of GIGABYTE 6 series motherboards, including the recently launched G1.Sniper 2 motherboard, when paired with Intel’s next generation 22nm CPUs. By installing the latest BIOS for their 6 series motherboards today, users can be assured they are ready to take advantage of all the performance enhancements tomorrow’s technologies have to offer.

To future proof your GIGABYTE 6 series motherboard, please download and install the latest BIOS update for your motherboard model from the GIGABYTE website: www.gigabyte.com.

GIGABYTE 22nm CPU and PCIe 3.0 Ready Motherboards

Chipset	Model	BIOS
Z68	G1.Sniper 2	F3
	Z68X-UD7-B3	F8
	Z68XP-UD5	F3
	Z68X-UD5-B3	F8
	Z68XP-UD4	F3
	Z68X-UD4-B3	F8
	Z68XP-UD3P	F4
	Z68X-UD3P-B3	F6
	Z68XP-UD3R	F3
	Z68X-UD3R-B3	F4
	Z68X-UD3H-B3	F7
	Z68XP-UD3	F4
	Z68MX-UD2H-B3	F8
	Z68A-D3H-B3	F9
	Z68MA-D2H-B3	F7
P67/H67	P67A-UD7-B3	F5
	P67A-UD5-B3	F6
	P67A-UD4-B3	F5
	P67A-UD3P-B3	F5
	P67X-UD3R-B3	F4
	P67A-UD3R-B3	F5
	P67X-UD3-B3	F5
	P67A-UD3-B3	F5
	P67A-D3-B3	F4
	P67-DS3-B3	F2
	PH67A-UD3-B3	F5
	PH67-UD3-B3	F4
	PH67-DS3-B3	F2
	PH67A-D3-B3	F4
	H67A-D3H-B3	F5b
	H67M-D2-B3	F5a
	H67N-USB3-B3	F6e
H61	H61M-D2P-B3	F6f
	H61M-D2-B3	F7e
	H61M-S2V-B3	F5g
	H61M-USB3-B3	F8h
	H61M-S2-B3	F2h
	H61N-USB3-B3	F2c
	HA65M-D2H-B3	F8o
	P61-S3-B3	F4c
	P61-DS3-B3	F3b
	P6-USB3-B3	F8d
	PA65-UD3-B3	F8c