erockerAh, the x38 brought in pci-e 2.0. I remember before p35's launch that I read it would have it, but I guess not.

In June 2007 Intel released the specification of the P35 chipset which does not support PCIe 2.0 only PCIe 1.1.[8] Some people may be confused by the P35 block diagram[9] which states the Intel P35 has a PCIe x16 graphics link (8 GB/s) and 6 PCIe x1 links (500 MB/s each), for simple verification one can view the P965 block diagram which shows the same number of lanes and bandwidth but was released before PCIe 2.0 was finalized. Intel's first PCIe 2.0 capable chipset is the X38 and boards are already shipping from various vendors (Abit, Asus, Gigabyte) as of October 21, 2007.[10] AMD started supporting PCIe 2.0 with its RD700 chipset series. NVIDIA has revealed that the MCP72 will be their first PCIe 2.0 equipped chipset.

TheLostSwedeOk, look, this is NOT a mainstream board, this is going to be a limited run and it has been designed for overclockers who wants to push their system to the max. Yes, it'll be expensive, but as Gigabyte will be handing out a few of these boards to the top overclockers, they're not going to care.

HaZe303Why would you put it in furthest down pci-e slot??

spearman914Also if your going to buy something like a 9800 GX2 ( which is so thick) it will be impossible to fit it thanks to the poor locations of the IEEE1394 and USB Connectors.