Saturday, August 17, 2013

ASUS TO RELEASE MOTHERBOARDS SUPPORTING USB 3 0

Asus will be the first company to give USB 3.0 support with its P6X58 motherboard. Motherboards supporting USB 3.0 are expected to become available by the end of 2009.

The new P6X58 motherboards will use 2 USB 3.0 super speed ports. They will also offer support for Intel’s Core i7 processors, six DDR3 slots, 3 PCI ExpressCard slots, and new SATA 3.0 ports which supports 6GB/sec transfer rate. The USB 3.0 standard will offer transfer rates of up to 4.8GB/second which is accomplished through extra data lines. Currently no USB 3.0 devices are available, so this port will not be usable at the moment.

Pricing and availability
No information regarding pricing or availability has been announced as yet.