USB 3.0 is sort of upon us. Asus has already constructed a USB 3.0-sporting motherboard and launched it into the wild. The P6X58 is pictured above and you’ll see on the left aspect (the 2 blue rectangular holes) that it has a few the brand new speedy bus ports, together with sluggish outdated USB 2.0 on the opposite aspect.
As a Mac person, I’ll be pleased when USB 3.0 lastly involves Apple machines. The on-again-off-again FireWire story is just like the plot of a foul telenovela; I don’t a lot care what ports are on there so long as they really keep there. Shopping for a FireWire system now appears dumb because the protocol will certainly be dropped in favor of the brand new USB quickly sufficient, and no marvel, with a theoretical most pace of 5 Gbit/s and a real-life anticipated price of 400MBytes/s.
Asus motherboard would be the first, nevertheless it’s aimed on the increased finish of gaming: There’s a slot for a Core i7 processor, six DDR3 reminiscence slots and three PCI-X 2.0 PCIe 2.0 slots. (thanks for the correction, calidan!) We’ll wait till the brand new protocol begins making it into mainstream client machines earlier than we begin ditching our outdated FireWire gear.
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