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Reasons not to go on the USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps now, especially on P55 chipsets
1)USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps is not native to P55 express chipset.
From what I know, USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps are currently available on some on the Asus and Gigabyte boards. They uses 3rd party party controller and chips from NEC and Marvell. Both Asus and Gigabyte have different ways of adopting USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps onto their board. Asus uses a bridge chip which makes use of 4 PCI-E 1.1 from the ICH10R providing the bandwidth for SATA 6Gbps(Mainly talking about SATA 6Gbps first). A bridge chip means more cost for the manufacturing of the board itself. Well on the Gigabyte side, they used an PCI-E x16 lane from the integrated PCI-E lanes in the processor itself, which means if you're using powerful graphics card on your PCI-E x16, there most likely will be a bottleneck. The technology on the P55 chipset motherboard is not perfect. So why pay for something that won't work well compared to say something that will be cheaper in the near future which makes all USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps native to the Intel chipset?

2)USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps are not mainstream. Of course USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps is blazingly fast. I'm very sure that with USB3.0, you can say byebye to firewire, the older USB 2.0. But with new revisions on the USB, version 3.0 needs new cable. New interface on the hardware side. This means your external hard disk drive need to be USB 3.0 compatible and currently on the market right now(when I'm writing this) , there is only ONE external hard drive that uses USB 3.0 interface. Other than that, is USB 3.0 really needed? Most conventional hard drives reads at maybe a speed of 200MB/s? USB 3.0 transfer data at 5Gb/s which is equals to 625 MB/s. See? No matter how fast USB 3.0, the maximum rate you're going to read from the drive will be 200MB/s. But from here, you can certainly see the huge difference compared to previous USB, the USB 2.0 which transfers at a maximum of 480Mb/s=60MB/s. Same thing for SATA 6Gbps. If you're not using extremely fast Solid State Drives that transfer at 250MB/s, no point getting SATA 6Gbps. 6Gbps=750MB/s. Who will reach that kind of speed? 100 solid state drives in Raid0?


I am starting to question the real need for SATA 6Gbps. I mean if everyone is going to use normal hard drives and get stuck there, SATA 1.0 is already enough for you. Come on people! Move on and get solid state drives! They are certainly worth the money now. It is future products that you are buying!


And by the way, in case you don't know, Intel is going to integrate USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps into their chipset only in 2011. AMD is coming up with their new chipsets very soon and I believe they will integrate USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps into their new SB chipsets. SB850 ftw! BUY AMD.

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New P55 1156 motherboards are leaving out the new USB3.0 and Sata 6Gbps revisions to the current USB2.0 and Sata 2.0, other than motherboard from asus(P7P55D-E) and Gigabyte(P55A) which uses third party controllers. Today, I'm not going to talk about the new features of SATA 6Gbps nor am I going to talk about how fast USB 3.0 is. Let's give a forecast and possibilities that may come in the near future with the new technologies available(based on competition between AMD and Intel)

It is rumoured that Intel will not feature USB 3.0 until 2011. That is most likely that SATA 6Gbps will not be featured in Intel chipset motherboard in the near future(2010). Is it a wrong step for intel?

Here is an example. Ati VS Nvidia wars. With the new product line of series that ATI(AMD) came up, the 5000 series line of graphics card, ATI has won many customers over from Nvidia. Direct X11. Eyefinity Technology. And what is Nvidia doing? Giving rumours after rumours? Letting people anticipating for their new graphics card codename Fermi? Can't you see that it's a way of strategy for people to still have a last hope for Nvidia? Ati 5000 series card would have been matured by the time Fermi is out on sales. Would people go for something that is new and more expensive providing same performance over ATI Gfx cards? Die-Hard Nvidia fanboys will. But it all depends on how powerful Fermi really is and how they are priced.

You may be wondering why so much talking about fermi from Nvidia and the 5000 series line of graphics card from ATI?
Could this be the same for the AMD and Intel War?

AMD is coming out with their new 890FX and SB850 chipset. Focusing on the southbridge, Sb850 from AMD, we suppose that AMD will adopt the new USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps. Rumoured from Fudzilla that the new motherboard equipped with the new chipset from AMD will be available in the market from April 2010 onwards, could it be a direct blow or a slap in a face to Intel? SSDs in raid are bottlenecking the Sata 3Gbps. We really need the 6Gbps. Compared to a third party controller that does USB3.0 and SATA 6Gbps, will AMD emerge as winner with their new SB850? SB750 is bad. Really bad based on performance compared to intel's ICH10R. Could this be a turning point for AMD? SB850, it all depends on you.

When there is new technology, you should adopt it. Yes Intel. I'm telling you this. With more new products equipped with USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps, and finding out that they are not able to utilise the full bandwidth on your chipset, they will think again before going to choose Intel for their next build. Corei7s may be a formidable force. But so what? For normal computing you do not need so much power. Gamers also do not need so much power from a corei7. What bottlenecking the whole computer system today is hard drives! And when talking about them you are talking about southbridge chipset. You should stop thinking about how Intel fanboys will be loyal to you because all technogeeks alike out there would go for new technology asap when they are out. Your delay in SATA 6Gbps and USB3.0 is a great mistake.

AMD seems to be a formidable force. A united and powerful force ready for any battle.
Intel? Nvidia? So what there is the codename"Power of three" platform. P55 CPU with a Nvidia graphics card for the best performance? HAHA. Think what Nvidia is doing towards Intel first! Comic strips laughing at Intel. Think about yourself first Nvidia! Disorganised! Who would go for the power of 3 platform when both Nvidia and Intel don't see eye to eye with one another?
AMD with ATI platform. Best up to date with "dragon" platform. Extra technology using Fusion technology. AMD overdrive... Other features that make AMD and ATI look so great compared to competitors. I have great confidence that AMD will emerge victorious. But it depends on their new CPUs and new chipsets. Performance wise and price wise, compared to intel's.

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