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.
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?
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):
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: