Why some good am3+ mobo doesnt have pcie 3.0?

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Echoceres

Echoceres

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well msi gaming 970 i thought im gonna buy it but i saw it doesnt have pcie 3.0 why does amd boards doesnt often come with 3.0 some i found is currently higher than my budget
 
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There are a few high end 990FX boards that do support PCIe 3.0. But it's worthless. There is minimal improvement between 2.0 and 3.0. As Suztera mentioned above, current GPUs aren't even close to maximizing PCIe 3.0 bandwidth so it's a waste of money at this point.
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There are a few high end 990FX boards that do support PCIe 3.0. But it's worthless. There is minimal improvement between 2.0 and 3.0. As Suztera mentioned above, current GPUs aren't even close to maximizing PCIe 3.0 bandwidth so it's a waste of money at this point.
 
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