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SuperSpeed USB – Gigabyte “Turbo” vs. Asus “True USB3.0″
by MIAHALLEN
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by MIAHALLEN
SuperSpeed USB started showing up in the marketplace in time for the 2009 holiday shopping season. There have been two major forces bringing this new technology to the market; Gigabyte and Asus. The fact that it is these two manufacturers first with new technology should be no surprise to anyone as they are the two largest motherboard manufacturers in the world. What nobody saw coming was the variety of implementation that would be used.
Right out of the gate, both Asus and Gigabyte are using non-standard methods to implement this new technology. By standard, I’m referring to connecting the NEC USB3.0 controller chip into the P55 chipset directly using the available PCIe 1.1 lanes that are a standard part of the platform.
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