Asus P7P55D-E PRO vs Gigabyte P55A-UD4P

[serous-2010]

Which of these two mobos would you recommend? They have the same features, the same price. But some people say that Asus has a better USB-SATA 3.0 support. Is that true? And is this an advantage for me, if I'm only using one GPU? I wanted to buy Gigabyte - just trust them more than Asus. However, I've heard some really good responses about P7P55D-E PRO. What do you think?

 

[Lmeow]

Well, with the P55A-UD4P, when you turn on/use SATA III/USB 3.0, the second PCI-e lane is disabled, and the first 16x slot only runs at 8x. With the P7P55D-E Pro, I believe this effect is negated.

 

[Henry Chinaski]

My vote goes for ASUS (In my opinion, the best mobo brand). The P7P55D-E PRO is an impressive mobo which allows an insane overclocking.
Besides, the Gigabyte one has this issue: Utilizing the full bandwidth of SATA III (Turbo) our PCI-E video card expansion ports will be reduced from a 16x X 1 (x8 X 2 for mutli GPU configurations) to an single x8 PCI-E lane rendering the second PCI-E utterly useless, because the SATA III controller is borrowing the extra 8 PCI-E lanes.

 

[serous-2010]

Well, with the P55A-UD4P, when you turn on/use SATA III/USB 3.0, the second PCI-e lane is disabled, and the first 16x slot only runs at 8x. With the P7P55D-E Pro, I believe this effect is negated.

So, you are saying that if I use USB/Sata 3, I cannot use two GPUs and even one will work two times slower?

 

[abhishekk89]

So, you are saying that if I use USB/Sata 3, I cannot use two GPUs and even one will work two times slower?

With the new revision i think its ok to use usb 3 with two gpus... its sata 3 that takes a hit since the bandwidth is borrowed from the pci lanes... while th e-pro has a plx bridge to overcome this problem and hence you can use both usb3 and sata3 with dual gpu setup..

 

[serous-2010]

With the new revision i think its ok to use usb 3 with two gpus... its sata 3 that takes a hit since the bandwidth is borrowed from the pci lanes... while th e-pro has a plx bridge to overcome this problem and hence you can use both usb3 and sata3 with dual gpu setup..

Thank you. I finally understood what this all means

 

[abhishekk89]

good... hope we all helped you make ur choice..

 

[matt_mu]

With the new revision i think its ok to use usb 3 with two gpus... its sata 3 that takes a hit since the bandwidth is borrowed from the pci lanes... while th e-pro has a plx bridge to overcome this problem and hence you can use both usb3 and sata3 with dual gpu setup..

so should the e pro work fine with the sata 6 and usb3 with out any modifications or decrease in proformence? I'm deciding between the p7p55d deluxe, e pro, and Asus P7P55 WS Supercomputer LGA 1156 P55 ATX Motherboard. What would be best for an i5 build?