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Exclusive: First USB 3.0 and SATA 6.0 Expansion Card, Will Sell For $30
For a mere 30 smackers, the U3S6 card gives you two USB 3.0 ports and two SATA 6.0 ports in a PCI-E card. The card has three primary components: an NEC D720200F1 USB 3.0 controller, a Marvell 88SE9123 SATA 6.0 controller, and a PLX PEX8613. The PLX part is the same chip the company uses on its SATA6 boards to helps ameliorate a problem with the P55 chipset.
New Asus P55 Motherboards are ‘TUF’
Kicking off the TUF series is the Sabertooth 55i. Based on Intel’s P55 chipset and built around Asus’ own ‘Marine Cool’ concept unveiled at CeBIT earlier this year, the Sabertooh comes equipped with the new CeraMIX heatsink. Through the use of ceramics and a microfin surface texture, the CeraMIX heatsink purports to dissipate heat more rapidly than traditional anti-oxidant compounds, Asus says.
Leaked Pics Show AMD’s Beastly ATI HD 5870 X2
In Act I of the modern-day GPU wars, AMD lit up the scene by releasing the ATI Radeon HD 5870, the fastest single-GPU videcoard money can buy. In Act II, AMD will hope to also claim the dual-GPU crown with its upcoming HD 5870 X2.
Seagate Announces World’s First 6Gbps SATA Hard Drive
Seagate today announced it has begun shipping what it claims is the “world’s fastest, largest-capacity mainstream desktop hard drive” dubbed the Barracuda XT. While the Barracuda XT isn’t the first 2TB hard drive to sport a 7200RPM spindle speed, it is the first one to feature a SATA 6Gb/s interface.
EVGA Launches 4-Way SLI Motherboard
Running a pair of dual-GPU GTX 295 videocards gives gamers quad-SLI bragging rights, but if you’re really serious about driving Crysis cranked up on your swank 30-inch display, EVGA’s new 4-way motherboard might be just what you’re looking for.
Intel’s New CPUs, Chipset to be Announced September 8
Citing un-named sources in the motherboard industry, news and rumor site DigiTimes says Intel will officially announce its new socket 1156-based desktop platform on September 8, 2009. This includes the Core i5 750, Core i7 860, and Core i7 870 processors, as well as the P55 motherboard chipset.
AMD Slowly Gains Share in GPU Market at Nvidia’s Expense
According to Jon Peddi research, growth in shipments of discrete videocards might mean the recession is winding down. It’s also good news for AMD, whose graphics market share has been on the rise thanks to a combination of stabilizing pricing and a hot-selling Radeon product line.
