Thread: ASUS introduce new motherboards with SATA 6 Gb / s and USB 3.0

ASUS had introduced a few months ago a prototype motherboard based on Intel X58 Express chipset, providing support for Serial ATA to 6 Gb / s and the third iteration of the USB standard. It was at Computex they had discovered P6X58 Premium. Following the problems of the Marvell 88SE9123 chip, the launch of this card had been canceled. If the information of our colleague The Bright Side of Newsare correct, she is back today with a slightly different surname, P6X58D Premium.

We thus find the famous Marvell controller, as revised and corrected, it will connect to via a link ICH10 PCI Express 2.0 x1. The Marvell chip supports two Serial ATA ports to 6 GB / s, here painted white, while the chipset are blue. Two USB 3.0 ports are also present on this motherboard is controlled by a chip D720200F1 original NEC.

P6X58D This Premium has a Phase Power Xtreme to 16 phases. Alongside the socket LGA 1366, there are six DDR3 slots supporting a total of 24GB on three channels. There are three slots PCI Express 2.0 x16 (x16 wired in, x8, x8 or x16 & x16 only if both are used). Two PCI slots and one PCIe x1 are also present on the PCB. There are also two Gigabit LAN ports, FireWire, many USB 2.0 ports

The ASUS P6X58D Premium should be launched during November. Tariff level, it will surely be placed between the P6TD Deluxe (~ 220 €) and the P6T7 WAS Supercomputer (~ 365 €).

Second card unveiled by our colleague, the P7P55D-E Premium. It is very similar to the P7P55D Premium, except that it supports USB 3.0. Strangely, seeking our previous news about the latter, we discovered that a site had been planned for the NEC was smart, and the first video had two USB ports painted blue...

This suggests that ASUS had originally planned to offer USB 3.0, before catching herself. If we knew through the Marvell SATA solution, it is not clear that ASUS has unable to use the NEC chip when it launched its P7P55D Premium. Finally, we see a landed P7P55D-E Premium strictly identical to a chip near...