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Source: The Inquisitr
By James Allen Johnson
Posted: October 30, 2009




Asus’ newest line of Xtreme motherboards offers transfer speeds so fast that four movies can be delivered in 15 seconds with no lose of data along the way.

The new Asus Xtreme Design P7P55D-E Series motherboard has onboard support for USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s abilities, while the Asus Xtreme Design P7P55D offers the same support with the help of a U3S6 PCIe x4 expansion card.

Speeds have been verified on 20GB HD movies which take less than 70 seconds to download, while a 4MB music file transfers are incredibly fast at 0.01 seconds.

The entire line of USB 3.0 supported motherboards also come with the Intel P55 Express chipset that offers support for the most recent LGA 1156 socket for Intel Core i7/Core i5 Processors with exclusive Hybrid Technology, active cool and rapid online access.

As should be expected both cards offer full support for Windows 7. [Slipperybrick via FarEastGizmos]

[kyouta]

swee!

[aireth]

never mention move from where to where?

[Magnuz]

Originally Posted by aireth

never mention move from where to where?

My thoughts exactly. The bottle necks will be Internet, HDD and DVD/Bluray reader.
Why do you think they put so much buffer memory on those things I mentioned above?

[Shrek]

20gb in 70s? damn are they using ramdisk or many hdd in raid 0.

thats 285mb/s

[power666]

The problem with USB 3.0 and SATA3 at 6.0 Gbit/sec is that the P55 chipset only has a mere 2 GB/sec bandwidth to the CPU. Using the PCI-E lanes on the P55 chipset for USB 3.0 or SATA3 is a very, very easy way to eat up that bandwidth. I do expect high performance SSD's to feel constrained. The other option for the P55 chipset is to link the USB 3.0 and SATA3 controllers directly to the LGA 1156's integrated PCI-E controller. That provides plenty of bandwidth but it reduces bandwidth for the PCI-E graphics slot. A single graphics card, USB 3.0 and SATA3 controllers hanging directly off of the LGA 1156 chip shouldn't be a problem. Moving to two video cards, USB 3.0 and SATA3 off of the same LGA 1156 chip is going to be crowded for graphics work.

What Intel really needs to do is get USB 3.0 and SATA 3 built into their high end chipsets for the LGA 1366 socket (X68 perhaps?). That platform has plenty of bandwidth to handle these new IO options in conjunction with multiple video cards with ease. If necessary, Intel also has the option of increasing the QPI link speed from 133 Mhz base to 166 Mhz base with little issue. Unfortunately it seems that Intel is sticking with the current X58 chipset for most of 2010 with only a hint of its replacement at the end of 2010.

On the bright side of things, AMD can integrate USB 3.0 and SATA 3 into their chipsets without worrying about bandwidth. Hypertransport provides plenty to the CPU. Some current AMD chipsets have enough PCI-E lanes to feed these high speed IO buses and still provide bandwidth for dual video cards.

[SteelCity1981]

What Intel really needs to do is get USB 3.0 and SATA 3 built into their high end chipsets for the LGA 1366 socket (X68 perhaps?).

You will have to wait another year for that seeing as intel stated just last week that they will not natively support USB 3.0 until 2011.

[jovioh]

well now is USB 3.0.. I still remember last time when USB 2.0 was out they also say is so fast and good but then... up to date i still find it on "theory" only.