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I want my next motherboard to have SATA III, USB 3.0 and PCIe 3.0
Does anyone know when Intel will have a chipset that supports all 3?
I'm trying to plan out what type of upgrades to buy while I wait for the next big rev of motherboard standards.

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it will be a long time pcie 3 has been delayed until Q2 2010

Reply to dogisfat

Yes, I've read about PCIe being delayed.
Maybe I could restate my question. When and what will be the Intel X58 chipset replacement and will it support SATA III, USB 3.0 and/or PCIe 3.0? I'm not hung-up on Intel, I'm just trying to get a feel for 2010. From what I have Googled, it looks like perhaps no major technology upgrades will happen to motherboards in 2010. Will 2010 be little different from 2009 motherboard wise?

Reply to truerock

ASUS has a work-around for SATA/6G on their latest P55 motherboards;
scroll down to the block diagrams here:

 

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=769

 


Note, however, that there is still a theoretical bottleneck
at PCIe x1 Gen 2, which supports only 500MB/second
in each direction, whereas SATA/6G @ 10 bits per byte
supports 600 MB/second.

 

So, this workaround is not ideal, but it should make
a difference for the first crop of SSDs that will have
a 6G interface.

 

Seagate also have a Savvio 2.5" HDD model 15K.2 with SAS/6G support:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/p [...] vio_15k.2/
but this is a 15,000 rpm rotating platter with a practical data rate
hovering around 150-160MB/second, directly under the read/write heads,
which is just now saturating SATA-I (150MB/second).

 


Hexus.net reports that ASUS is also developing
an add-on controller that supports SATA/6G,
using the same chips -- with probably the same
theoretical bottleneck of 500MB/second (as above):

 

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=19975

 


See also Intel's RAID controllers model RS2BL080
and RS2BL040 ("Big Laurel 8" and "Big Laurel 4"
respectively): these are enterprise-class SAS/6G
add-on controllers available now from Intel and
from LSI under the MegaRAID brand name:

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,2392.html

 

Based on the published specs, these Intel RAID controllers
should work at max bandwidth in all existing x8 PCI-E 2.0 slots.

 


MRFS

 


Message edited by MRFS on 09-03-2009 at 05:03:10 AM
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