ASUS3S6 USB 3.0 SATA 6 Gb/s Addon Card

[zCexVe]

Just as ASUS was readying its first wave of socket LGA-1156 motherboards, the company picked up interest in offering SATA 6 Gb/s and USB 3.0 as a feature set. With the P7P55D Premium motherboard, the company even used a PCI-Express 2.0 bridge chip to ensure the SATA 6 Gb/s controller - the Marvell 88SE9123-NAA2 - got a PCI-E 2.0 x1 link, which other manufacturers end up wiring a PCI-E 1.1 x1 link from the P55 PCH. In a bid to propagate the design, the company had also designed an addon card that works on the same principle. The the card has finally taken shape in the form of the ASUS U3S6 (USB 3.0 and SATA 6 Gb/s), complete with its missing USB 3.0 controller that provides two SuperSpeed 5000 Mbps ports. The interface bottleneck for the NEC µPD720200 USB 3.0 controller is also reduced by provision of a PCI-E 2.0 x1 link. Both connectors are wired to a PLX PEX8613 3-port/12-lane PCI-E 2.0 bridge chip, which takes in four PCI-Express lanes (typically PCI-E 1.1 lanes from the southbridge or P55 PCH), and gives out the required two links. Although there is no word on the card's price yet, PCSTATS reckons something around $30 likely. In that case, the card would be a steal deal, considering recently announced SATA 6 Gb/s addon cards by HighPoint that hold just the Marvell 88SE9123-NAA2, are priced over $60.

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[¤--bACarDi--¤]

60 bucks

 

[zCexVe]

60 bucks

er, dude..It says around $30..you missed a part in the last line.

 

[DXD]

Ela....

 

[¤--bACarDi--¤]

er, dude..It says around $30..you missed a part in the last line.

i just saw the 60$ and stop reading lol
btw i saw a ASUS MB comes with USB 3 today

 

[zCexVe]

ASUS = Always Supplying Useless Stuff
We had a board RMAed 3 times. effing ASUS.Service sucks too sometimes..I think there lowend sucks..Just gonna get ASrock for lowend and only gonna get highend from ASUS

This is the board
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=kvkzMAsYAaWQ0z8M&templete=2

P7P55D premium..I'd skip that lol wait till something like from Gigabyte which has both SATA 6Gbps and USB3 built in.
Edit: We use global site just cuz US site doesn't load Tell me about the service haha

 

[Hasitha-Kasun]

USB 3.0??? 2.0 Support nedda???