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Huh? Why No 6 Gb/s SATA on Gigabyte i5 Mobos?

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r_manic   07-15-2009 at 09:32:02 AM

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Gigabyte let us know that SATA 6 Gb/s will not make it onto the company's P55 motherboards and will instead emerge with its X58 motherboard refresh. Additionally, it has been reported that Asus scrapped plans for 6 Gb/s SATA on its P55 lineup as well



I don't understand why Gigabyte would drop this... shouldn't they make their newer models better, even those designed to handle lower-end processors?

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photonboy   07-15-2009 at 10:49:00 AM
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They haven't dropped the new SATA 600 forever, there are just some issues to be worked out.

There aren't any hard drives that are rated to work with SATA 600 yet anyway.

As for hard drives, except for the burst cache even a Velociraptor can't max out SATA 150.

You really only "need" SATA 600 for really fast SSDs. A top of the line SSD can Read at about 260MB/second and Write at 220MB/second. You'd have to RAID0 two a year for one to really max out SATA 300.

For most people it's not a big deal, though it's a bigger deal than USB3. Whoopeee.

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cangelini   07-15-2009 at 11:09:43 AM
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r--

We know from Asus that Marvell's drivers, at the very least, are not yet ready. That's a pretty big issue to have so close to launch, so it's an understandable move.

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zipzoomflyhigh   07-15-2009 at 06:20:53 PM
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r_manic wrote :

From Tom's Hardware:

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Gigabyte let us know that SATA 6 Gb/s will not make it onto the company's P55 motherboards and will instead emerge with its X58 motherboard refresh. Additionally, it has been reported that Asus scrapped plans for 6 Gb/s SATA on its P55 lineup as well



I don't understand why Gigabyte would drop this... shouldn't they make their newer models better, even those designed to handle lower-end processors?




You call i5 and i7 "lower end processors"??

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zipzoomflyhigh   07-15-2009 at 06:22:38 PM
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It's funny, it seems even THG doesnt know there will be s1156 i7's.

They make these statements:

Why 3 pci-e when i5 is limited to 2 lanes?
Why 6 dimm slots when i5 is limited to dual channel?


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