Why no USB3 boards
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New standards like these take a long time to implement, you need new drivers, cables, ports and the hardware to utilize them. That's a lot of different manufacturers and companies.
From what I've read however we should start seeing more consumer USB 3.0 products in 2010, which will of course include motherboards. I expect it will only be high end boards that adopt them first, but over 2010 I expect it will filter down to more mainstream boards as more products are released that support them. There is of course no point for the motherboard manufacturers to have paid for the USB 3.0 controllers etc on mainstream boards if there are no peripherals released that supports the new speeds.
From what I've read however we should start seeing more consumer USB 3.0 products in 2010, which will of course include motherboards. I expect it will only be high end boards that adopt them first, but over 2010 I expect it will filter down to more mainstream boards as more products are released that support them. There is of course no point for the motherboard manufacturers to have paid for the USB 3.0 controllers etc on mainstream boards if there are no peripherals released that supports the new speeds.
Soldato
I'd imagine the next generation of motherboard chipsets will have native USB3/SATA 600 support. You'll probably be seeing them in 5-6 months time.
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I believe that there were problems with the USB3 controllers that needed to be added as a seperate chip, as quite a few P55 with USB3 boards were announced then pulled quite late.
I believe that the P57 chipset from Intel should see USB3 coming to the Intel platform, probably see the southbridge on the x58 be upgraded to an ICH11 about the same time as the P55 chip and ICH10 are supposed to be more or less identical.
I believe that the P57 chipset from Intel should see USB3 coming to the Intel platform, probably see the southbridge on the x58 be upgraded to an ICH11 about the same time as the P55 chip and ICH10 are supposed to be more or less identical.
Caporegime
Will it be backwards compatible like USB2?
Soldato
Yes, USB3 is backwards compatible.
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