USB3 and SATA3 : When?

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Hi All,

So I decided to hang off upgrading, currently still running my IP35 Pro and Q6600 @3.6Ghz but I think I might upgrade once SATA3 and USB3 make it onto a Mobo, when's it due ;)

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HEADRAT
 
SATA 3 (6GBPS) should be out on mobos the next few months, gigabyte are releasing revised mobos with this standard on the X58 platform in this timescale. Not sure if they have USB3, it would make sense for them to though.

Hawker
 
As far as I know you need the products to be compatible with them as well, so you need a HD that can support sata3 (and I would guess it would need to be solid state as normal hard drives go nowhere near maxing out sata2 bandwidth) and for USB3 you need compatible disk drives etc.

Im more keen on the USB3 as USB2 speeds are just dire when I connect my phone or use a usb disk. Glad my external hard drive supports e-sata, such a difference!
 
Well SATA 3 is backwards compatible with SATA 2 hardware, so surely having it will be a benefit in the future, esp with SSDs improving as fast as they are.

And your phone and USB stick are limited by the speed of the memory that is on them, not the USB2 bus, bandwidth from the bus is 480mbps and reading from ur phone/HDD etc will be much slower than that.

Hawker
 
As said, they are both backwards compatible so if you upgrading you may as well futureproof yourself.

Also, isn't pci-e 3 due out next year as well?
 
Greebo said:
As said, they are both backwards compatible so if you upgrading you may as well futureproof yourself.

Also, isn't pci-e 3 due out next year as well?
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Oh for goodness sake lol, not another thing, everytime I think of upgrading something else crops up... I was going to wait for SATA III and USB 3.0 and now I'm reading up on PCI-E 3, being twice as fast as PCI-E 2... yet another thing to wait for or is it just another pointless upgrade?
 
VortX said:
Oh for goodness sake lol, not another thing, everytime I think of upgrading something else crops up... I was going to wait for SATA III and USB 3.0 and now I'm reading up on PCI-E 3, being twice as fast as PCI-E 2... yet another thing to wait for or is it just another pointless upgrade?
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Generally if you wait for new technology you will never actually buy anything. Product gets released all the time and unless you have pots of money around your ankles you will never be able to keep up.
 
Slackworth said:
Generally if you wait for new technology you will never actually buy anything. Product gets released all the time and unless you have pots of money around your ankles you will never be able to keep up.
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Very true... and even if PCIE 3 comes out late this year, NVIDIA 300 series (which I want go get)sure as hell won't be PCIE 3 so that means another wait until the 400 series so its just wait wait wait and as you said I'll never get round to buying anything :o ... I am however going to wait for SATA III at least, and hopefully get a X58 board with SATA III and USB 3 by the end of the year / Q1 2010, I'm not so worried about PCIE 3 because they promised so much with PCIE 2 and it was just a bunch of dogs ******* :p
 
I'd not bother waiting for either. Until they are standard features on the main motherboard chipsets they are a waste of time imo. Yes you'll be able to get SATA3 on a 3rd party chipset soon, but lets be honest 3rd party chipsets are always a faff and really just a workaround until they are intergrated into the southbridge chips properly.
 
If you wait yo will be waiting for ever.

Sata3 will be in September with the release of Intel core i5 and will be on the mobo.

Here's hoping I5 is significantly cheaper than I7. Like P2 prices. Anyone know what it's likely to cost?
As they are meant to be just as fast as the i7 920 chip.
 
I'm just a little confused as to the i9, one min people are saying its coming out Q1 2010, then Q2 2010, then not at all... would be nice to see an OFFICIAL Intel roadmap rather than 'speculation' road maps :rolleyes:
 
why are you interested in i9. it is basically a die shrink of i7.

As they are getting rid of i7 920 and 940. I7 will be hugely expensive and I9 even more so. So I don't see why you would be interested or waiting for it.

Probably can't find it as intel probably haven't said exactly when. but it is expected soon after Core i5, so probably q1 2010.
 
AcidHell2 said:
why are you interested in i9. it is basically a die shrink of i7.

As they are getting rid of i7 920 and 940. I7 will be hugely expensive and I9 even more so. So I don't see why you would be interested or waiting for it.

Probably can't find it as intel probably haven't said exactly when. but it is expected soon after Core i5, so probably q1 2010.
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Not entierly so, It has 6 cores, instead of 4, 12 threads instead of 8, and 12MB of L3 cache instead of 8MB of L3 cache and it is 32nm instead of 45nm. If I have to wait an extra month or so (was planning to upgrade in december) I think its worth the extra wait imo.
 
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