Asus is set to release the P6X58 Premium motherboard which features two USB 3.0 “SuperSpeed” ports. The board also supports a Core i7 processor, six DDR-3 slots, 3 PCI-Express slots, and a SATA 3.0 interface capable of 6Gb/sec transfer speeds.
Asus has yet to announce pricing and release date information, and no benchmarks have been carried out. Early adopters are going to be disappointed with the lack of available hardware capable of harnessing USB 3.0′s super speeds—but they can take solace in the sweet blue colour scheme of the new ports while looking down at the masses’ blah grey connectors.
[via Everything USB and XFastest]
Jeffery Wang
July 21, 2009 at 4:49 PM
I’m probably wrong here, but doesn’t Core i7 only allow for tri-channel memory? So what’s the point of six DDR-3 slots?
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July 21, 2009 at 10:45 PM
@Jeffery Wang:
Report PermalinkTri channel only means there are 3 channels, like dual channel on current systems. This doesn’t mean that you can’t have multiple ram sticks on the same channel, thats why dual channel systems can have 4 sticks of ram.