GB P55/X58 Budget Universal Serial Bus 3.0 CPU board Roundup

[Desirée Vaz]

With the first wave of Universal Serial Bus 3.0 drives delivering 3-4 times the function of Universal Serial Bus 2.0, PC hardware enthusiasts in the market for a fresh CPU board are flocking to products that support the fresh specification.

If you are going to spend the money on a fresh mobo, you may as good acquire one that supports the new and most extraordinary technology right?Gigabyte seems to accept bedeviled on this befalling and has abounding the bazaar with USB 3.0 adjustable motherboards. Appropriate now the aggregation offers no beneath than 10 altered USB 3.0 motherboards for the P55 chipset alone, and has alien added than 1 actor USB 3.0-ready motherboards to date.



Gigabyte currently offers P55 motherboards starting at $120 and activity up to about $250 on Newegg. On the X58 front, Gigabyte offers three X58 motherboards with USB 3.0, with their GA-X58A-UD3R amid the atomic big-ticket X58 boards with USB 3.0 support, priced at $210 on Newegg appropriate now.

As earlier this year we required at Gigabyte P55A-UD6 and X58A-UD7, these are their level-end extends for the P55 and X58 chips respective.While they are together great CPU Board, they are costed as such and might be a bit also expensive for few enthusiasts on a budget who need Universal Serial Bus 3.0 support, but do not need to fork over a lot of money to do it.

So with this in mind we are appearing at a quartet of P55 and X58 CPU boards Gigabyte extends with support for Universal Serial Bus 3.0. All of them are lower than the boards we expected at back in January, with the P55-USBIII really the cheapest P55 USB 3.0 extending on Newegg just now and the X58-UDIIIR tied for that distinction between X58 boards.