GIGABYTE P55A Motherboard Preview - SATA3 & USB3

Mon 2009-10-26 - Posted by Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

TweakTown have posted a video preview of two upcoming Gigabyte motherboards, the P55A-UD4P and P55A-UD6. What differentiates these models from Gigabyte's current P55 series is that they support SATA 3.0, USB 3, and also USB ports have that three time as much power as the reference design calls for, thus permitting external hard drives to work without a seperate power source.

Here's what they had to say:

"Today we were invited to the GIGABYTE headquarters here in Taipei. We were given an exclusive hands-on look at its upcoming and refreshed Intel P55 Express based motherboards for Core i5 and Core i7 Lynnfield based Socket 1156 processors. Namely, we are looking at the P55A-UD6 and the P55A-UD4P."

The future of connectivity is just around the corner, so those of you who don't upgrade very often might want to wait a little while until these new features are finally available.

Click here to check out full article.

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