ASRock P55 Bundles SATA III Card with Motherboard

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[caption id="attachment_3874" align="alignright" width="282" caption=" Img Courtesy OCWorkbench"][/caption]ASRock is notorious for their often unique and quite brilliant additions to the motherboard marketplace; producing products that may have a limited consumer base, but are a godsend to those who need them. While SATA III techno... [ Read full article ]

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Originally Posted by caption

The upcoming P55 chipset would have been a great place to debut the 6GB/s data transfer technology

Technically, it's 6Gb/s, for the sake of accuracy.

It's a nice touch, although considering that a PCI-E x1 slot is going to top out at 500MB/s, not including any overhead and the fact that the slot will likely be routed through the PCH, I'm not sure how practical it will turn out to be.

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Originally Posted by MpG

Technically, it's 6Gb/s, for the sake of accuracy.

Whoopsie - good catch - clearly I need another cup-o-joe