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Old 29th October 2009, 11:09 AM   #1
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Default Asus P55 Premium with SATA3 and USB3 in the house!
w00t, this just arrived at my door this morning, it has the new SATA3 and USB3 controllers...



I am waiting on some SATA3 Barracuda XT 2TB drives from Seagate and also some USB3 drives and the testing will begin!

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I will do some comparisons with HD Tach and also IOMeter on the USB and SATA interfaces on this board...

I will like to compare how much faster the new sata3 drives are, but also gains that can be had by using your existing devices in normal and raid configurations on the new controllers..



those baby blue ones are usb3




and of course sata3 6gbs baby
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Old 29th October 2009, 4:17 PM   #2
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Nice!

Slightly confused here though, P7P55D-E Premium and P7P55D Premium?

the normal premium doesnt have usb3?
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Old 29th October 2009, 4:23 PM   #3
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And yet they still put an IDE on there.
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Old 29th October 2009, 7:05 PM   #4
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Nice!

Slightly confused here though, P7P55D-E Premium and P7P55D Premium?

the normal premium doesnt have usb3?
Both Asus and Gigabyte released P55 boards before USB3 and Sata3 hit the market, so they'd already used all their standard naming conventions. Now that usb/sata 3 is out they're both releasing the same boards with the addition of usb/sata 3. So same board, same name, sorta...
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Old 29th October 2009, 8:04 PM   #5
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And yet they still put an IDE on there.
you would have thought they would have ditched that and gone for more sata3 and usb3 goodness.
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Old 29th October 2009, 8:52 PM   #6
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you would have thought they would have ditched that and gone for more sata3 and usb3 goodness.
Yeah, I wonder if they bundled a floppy connector as well :P. A lot of people still use PATA for their optical drives. Why buy a new one if your old one works fine. Heck, you can still buy PATA drives, so they aren't really discontinued. and what the heck, why would you need a 48 phase power design? I thought my 16 phase was heaps
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Old 30th October 2009, 5:27 AM   #7
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Yeah, I wonder if they bundled a floppy connector as well :P. A lot of people still use PATA for their optical drives. Why buy a new one if your old one works fine. Heck, you can still buy PATA drives, so they aren't really discontinued. and what the heck, why would you need a 48 phase power design? I thought my 16 phase was heaps
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il be genuinely suprised if usb3 and sata3 make any real world difference with current hardware
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il be genuinely suprised if usb3 and sata3 make any real world difference with current hardware
current hardware probably not much but the latest gear would see a big difference compared to their older counterparts.
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il be genuinely suprised if usb3 and sata3 make any real world difference with current hardware
sata3 maybe not but usb3 will

no more 30mbs limit to your external HDDs, yes i know you can use Esata but that requires extra power and you have to turn on AHCI (spelling?) which is more hassle than its worth
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Old 30th October 2009, 6:10 PM   #11
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Looks nice, keen to see the comparison.
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Old 30th October 2009, 6:19 PM   #12
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sata3 maybe not but usb3 will

no more 30mbs limit to your external HDDs, yes i know you can use Esata but that requires extra power and you have to turn on AHCI (spelling?) which is more hassle than its worth
Whats wrong with AHCI? It's recommended for SSD owners, but I know nothing else about it.
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Whats wrong with AHCI? It's recommended for SSD owners, but I know nothing else about it.
Nothing really wrong with it, but if you don't already have it enabled it pretty much means you need a clean install, because getting it enabled with the right drivers installed afterwards is a major PITA.
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And yet they still put an IDE on there.
And PS2 connectors. Bloody hell they annoy me - time to get rid of all of thes now. At least they have ditched the floppy connector (I can't see one on the product shot on the Asus site)
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