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Rob Williams · 05-07-2012, 03:40 PM

Our GPU test bench got an upgrade a couple of months ago, and due to various life happenings (such as moving to another city), it never got used. As it turns out, that was a bit of a blessing, as I never considered the fact that it didn't have PCIe 3.0, the latest standard that both AMD and NVIDIA are shipping products for. Second, I'll soon be heading up our hard drive testing, and for that, I needed a good SATA 6 controller - which the X58 motherboard I updated our rig with didn't have (this is why).

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05-07-2012, 03:40 PM	#1
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,231	Updating Our GPU Test Bench to X79 Our GPU test bench got an upgrade a couple of months ago, and due to various life happenings (such as moving to another city), it never got used. As it turns out, that was a bit of a blessing, as I never considered the fact that it didn't have PCIe 3.0, the latest standard that both AMD and NVIDIA are shipping products for. Second, I'll soon be heading up our hard drive testing, and for that, I needed a good SATA 6 controller - which the X58 motherboard I updated our rig with didn't have (this is why). Read the rest of our post and then discuss it here! __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.