Taipei, Taiwan, August 8, 2011 - GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and computing hardware solutions today announced their 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 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:  http://www.gigabyte.com/.
 
GIGABYTE 22nm CPU and PCIe 3.0 Ready Motherboards

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