Gigabyte Introduces USB 3.0 Motherboards

Gigabyte today announced seven new P55A-series motherboards that feature Gigabyte 333 onboard acceleration. This trio of technologies includes USB 3.0, Serial-ATA Revision 3.0 (6Gbps) and a 3x boost in USB power.

According to a press release, Utilizing the industry’s first Serial ATA Revision 3.0 solution, the Marvell 88SE9128 controller, Gigabyte P55A-series motherboards offer support for next generation high speed data storage devices with data transfer speeds of up to 6 Gbps. Coupled with RAID 0 (Stripe) mode, SATA Revision 3.0 enables a data transfer boost of up to 4x the speed of SATA Revision 2.0.

In addition, Gigabyte P55A-series motherboards introduce a unique hardware design with lower resistance fuses for ensuring lower voltage drops and providing more stable and plentiful power delivery.

The Gigabyte P55A-series motherboards Supports the latest Intel Core i7 and Core i5 processors for the LGA 1156 socket. With the memory controller integrated directly into the processor die, Gigabyte P55A motherboards support 2 channel DDR3 memory for faster memory performance up to 2200MHz and above.