SATA 6Gb/s Implementations Examined - ASUS vs. GIGABYTE P55 Motherboards

Mon 2009-12-28 - Posted by Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

TweakTown have taken a look at the two different SATA 6Gb/s implementations adopted by ASUS and Gigabyte.

Here's what they had to say:

"We saw a lot of performance numbers today and they all lead me to the same conclusions.

The Intel P55 chipset offers enough bells and whistles for mainstream users looking to use a single video card and technologies that are mainstream today. The chipset is just not designed to take full advantage of next generation high bandwidth goodies like SATA 6G and USB 3.0 without heavy modification to the motherboard design. ASUS and GIGABYTE are known for pushing the envelope as far as they can, but when it comes to P55 they pushed the envelope off the table. It is not like they didn’t give it a good try or skipped critical steps, P55 was just never designed to be used in this manner. "

Well there you have it. While X58 motheboards with SATA 6Gb/s implementations

might end up being worthwhile, the P55 models cannot make optimal use of this new standard.

Click here to read the full review.

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