ASRock Bundle SATA III Card With Motherboard

[PeterStoba]

ASRock have bundled in a SATA III card with their latest high end P55 motherboard.

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[Rastalovich]

That's a heck of a tease.

More amazingly to me is that ASRock are releasing a P55 already ?

Is this perhaps an oem mobo that we'll see somewhere ?

As to the issues regarding the controllers. It would appear from other texts that ASUS left off IDE on some/all (there may well be 12 mobos in the range so it's hard to say all) the P55 mobos. Conversly, Gigabyte seem to have overcome the issue with their P55 releases.

Thing that struck me as strange with both of these manufacturers tho is that on their mobos they quote SATA2 - the controllers in the typical southbridge area had the sinks physically taken off to reveal the newer marvell chipset.

I have a weird feeling that these could be some kind of SATA3 tech stapled onto SATA2 buses or similar, that will give a SATA2.5 result as a sort of interim.

All spectulation ofc - what I would say is tho - pay particular attention to ALL the SATA ports on the mobo when u review them. I'm envisaging something along the lines of... 6xSATA2 ports plus 2xSATA2"enhanced" ports, iykwim.

OC3D got an ASUS P55 review on the sidelines ?

 

[PeterStoba]

More amazingly to me is that ASRock are releasing a P55 already ?

No, I they will be releasing around september with the other manufacturers afaik.

Is this perhaps an oem mobo that we'll see somewhere ?

Will be a retail board

I have a weird feeling that these could be some kind of SATA3 tech stapled onto SATA2 buses or similar, that will give a SATA2.5 result as a sort of interim.

All spectulation ofc - what I would say is tho - pay particular attention to ALL the SATA ports on the mobo when u review them. I'm envisaging something along the lines of... 6xSATA2 ports plus 2xSATA2"enhanced" ports, iykwim.

Yeah, I am expecting something like this to appear. It doesn't strictly make sense but an increase is always good

 

[Rastalovich]

Weirdness for me is that afaic ASRock has been a solid releaser of older generation mobos once every1 else seems to have lost interest.

i.e. once every1 has jumped the 775 ship, any1 looking for a 775 mobo would have an ASRock option. It won't be a classic overclocker or anything, but definitely solid with all the lessons learnt.

Releasing with the big-boys isn't something I'd consider them as doing.

They are still a subsiduary of ASUS ?

 

[JN]

OC3D got an ASUS P55 review on the sidelines ?

ofc Along with a few others too. All hush hush tho you must understand haha

 

[w3bbo]

Thing that struck me as strange with both of these manufacturers tho is that on their mobos they quote SATA2 - the controllers in the typical southbridge area had the sinks physically taken off to reveal the newer marvell chipset.

I have a weird feeling that these could be some kind of SATA3 tech stapled onto SATA2 buses or similar, that will give a SATA2.5 result as a sort of interim.

All spectulation ofc - what I would say is tho - pay particular attention to ALL the SATA ports on the mobo when u review them. I'm envisaging something along the lines of... 6xSATA2 ports plus 2xSATA2"enhanced" ports, iykwim.

OC3D got an ASUS P55 review on the sidelines ?

All covered in the review m8. I can however tell you this as it does not effect NDA. SATA 3 is not called Sata3. No such thing any more. SATA IO have done away with the name because they found that people were confusing SATA 3 with Sata 2 which as you know runs at 3GB/s so intead they are renaming it SATA 6GB/s.

So in effect it is SATA3 but not in name although I would wage that most will still refer to it as SATA3 which will only add to the confusion.

 

[Rastalovich]

That kinda really makes alot of sense of all the patchy things I been seeing.

 

[PeterStoba]

Just a bit of an update on this - http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=P55 Deluxe&s=

ASRock have confirmed that it is a PCI express 2.0 x1 slot, meaning 2.5GT/s bandwidth, mroe than enough