Socket AM3 motherboards that support SLI and USB 3.0

[mrcaffeinex]

Are there any new socket AM3 motherboards slated to be released any time soon that will support SLI and USB 3.0?

I have found these two online:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130236

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131636

I know the alternative is to pick any other AM3 board and run the SLI hack, however I think it would be much nicer to have support right out of the box and not have to rely on a hack that may or may not work.

While we're at it, what happened to that company that was supposed to be making chipsets that would support ATI and nVidia GPUs in dual-card setups? Was it a joke or has something materialized from it?

-MrCaffeineX

 

[Sp12]

All AM3 motherboards with OoB SLI support will be running Nvidia chipsets, which are generally considered inferior to the 7/8 hundred series.

Lucidlogix did actually make a chip and it works well (within 5% of crossfire scaling with 2 ATI cards, within 15% of native SLI, and works decently in mixed setups). Issue is that it's an expensive chip for a mobo maker to put on. There are a few AM3 board with it however.

 

[nenforcer]

Your best best is to just buy a 980A and a third party PCI-E USB 3 controller.

Are there any devices using or requiring USB 3 yet? External hard drives maybe?