Motherboards with both SATA 6Gb and USB 3.0, when?

[BlackBabyJesus]

In the AnandTech article about the first SATA 6GB/S hdd from Seagate, Gary Key mentions that "ASUS will be shipping their P7P55D Premium shortly with the Marvell 9123 chipset. This board features a PEX PLX8613 PCIe bridge chip that will convert four of the PCIe x1 lanes (250MB/s each) into two 500MB/s lanes."

And according to a wired.com article, Asus are already shipping a mobo with USB 3.0 slots.

I'm just wondering if there are any upcoming motherboards in the next 2-3 months that will have both some kind of SATA 6Gb and USB 3.0 support?

I'm very tempted to upgrade to an i7 cpu but it seems silly to spend $200+ on a mobo now, only to have to swap it soon.

 

[ekoostik]

How about an add-in card that runs USB 3.0? I think its a safe assumption that those will eventually become available, and they would save you from having to get a new motherboard. I'm no expert when in comes to the PCI/PCIe slots. Can those lanes and the P55 chipset support the transfer of USB 3.0? What slot should we expect to keep open to add in a USB 3.0 card?

 

[vailr]

Another updated feature to look for is: PCIe 3.0.
A new Intel chipset (P65 ?) would be needed to natively support all 3 features.

 

[ekoostik]

Interesting. I'd been waiting for USB 3.0, and SATA III, hoping for some future proofing on my new machine. But I hadn't heard much about PCIe 3.0. Sure enough, here's a prediction made in 2007 that it'd be out by late 2009, maybe early 2010:
http://arstechnica.com/old/con...-3-0-specification.ars

And some more recent news, it's been pushed back at least 6 months so we may not see it until 2011:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/08/21/pci_3_delay/

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

SATA II is more than adequate for even the fastest spindle drives so unless you want a SSD there really is no point. Graphics cards just started to max PCI-E 1.1. USB 3.0 is really only useful for external hard drives but we have E-SATA so there really isn't anything to be excited about.