Thread: Gigabyte will be soon promote motherboard with USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb / s

Gigabyte will soon launch its GA-P55A-UD4. As its name indicates, is an evolution of the current P55-UD4. It therefore incorporates the Intel P55 Express, Socket LGA 1156, feeding 12 +2 phases and four DDR3 slots. Two PCI Express x16 supporting CrossFireX AMD / ATI and NVIDIA SLI are present. Six ports SATA 3GB / s, two eSATA, FireWire, Gigabit LAN and HD audio are part of the motherboard. But she also has two big news.

Two Serial ATA ports to 6 Gb / s have been built by Gigabyte, and two USB 3.0 ports. A chip Marvell (probably the famous 88SE9123, revised and corrected) is in charge of SATA 6 Gb / s, whereas we find a NEC PD720200 support of USB 3.0. The big question that arises is how the two chips are connected to the chipset and processor. If it is via a x1 PCIe link as one might suspect, the motherboard loses much of its interest. We certainly know more when Gigabyte formalize his new card. Regarding the tariff can be expected to be higher than the models, how much we do not know yet.