USB 3 Bandwidth (X58 vs P67)

GregI

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I want to get the Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle for streaming and capturing. This product needs the full "5 gbps" of USB3 to work.

The documentation by Blackmagic says that the X58 boards (Asus and Gigabyte) will work with no problems but no documentation anywhere on P67 support. I have went as far to looking at peoples YouTube pages for Shuttle videos and then checking their profile in hope they will list system specifications.

On searching here I came across this thread,

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18240905&highlight=blackmagic

Which is a P55 board and the dude there cannot get the full speed USB 3 support. I don't want to be in the same boat with a P67.

So basically, anyone can verify that the P67 boards can provide the exact same USB3 bandwidth as X58? Or better yet, have a P67 board with Shuttle working?

Thanks
 
My p67 says "full usb3 support" on the box! The new sandybridge excels in media applications, even over the very expensive 980x x58 platforms, so I'd take the chance. Sandy bridge is very new and blackmagic probably just haven't tested yet
 
Maybe not relevant this but I bought a usb3 ext hard drive 80gb.(not ssd but no moving parts, only cost £16.99!) I dragged over 80gb of data and took 10mins to fill, where as in the past high speed memory cards of 4 gig took over 25mins to fill with usb2
 
I failed to get my Intensity Shuttle working on a Maximus IV Extreme. The CPU/motherboard power saving features seem to sap way too much bandwidth. Even with as many as I could find in the BIOS disabled (including C1E) it didn't work. If you don't have enough bandwidth for the Shuttle, the picture will drop out or flicker black frames.

The same problem occurs on an AMD 890FX system with all power saving features enabled. I got it working with Cool n' Quiet enabled, but C1E must be disabled along with 'PCI Express link state power management' in Windows 7.

The Shuttle works fine on all X58 boards I've tried, with C1E enabled. Just make sure 'Enhanced C states' or 'C5/C6/C7' states are disabled.

Hope this of of some help. :)
 
Thanks for the replies.

So many different opinions. A guy yesterday on a forum I was reading was saying that the triple channel and i7 cpu in an X58 will beat sandybridge in applications related to CS5 and stuff (gaming on PC does not interest me anymore). Sure I would like an easy what, 4.5 Ghz on the K chips but if the X58 can properly do Shuttle capturing without all these tweaks, that seems the best option.

My other idea was to get a budget sandybridge system and use the Intensity Pro as that should work. I still have my doubts if the robustness of the Shuttle is anywhere near the Shuttle for the ironing out of bugs.
 
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