when will there be an mATX motherboard with USB3 and SATA3?

[vital]

Deciding if I should get the Gene II or just wait till a mobo w/ usb3 and SATA3 comes out..

 

[Decembermouse]

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17167/69/

 

[Zap]

404 micro ATX not found

 

[frostedflakes]

mATX has less board space for a separate USB3 and SATA3 controller, and these controllers cost more as well, so I'd imagine these features won't become common on mATX boards until they are integrated into the southbridge. Last I heard, nVidia, AMD, and Intel won't be integrating USB3 onto their SB chips until 2011. Chipsets supporting SATA3 should be available this year, though.

 

[vital]

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17167/69/

i don't see anywhere on there that says it's a micro ATX motherboard?

 

[Decembermouse]

Nope, it's not. But that's about the time I think USB3 + SATA6 mobos will start to come out en masse, so it will probably take a bit longer than that for matx boards to come out with those features.

 

[21stHermit]

Here's GIGABYTE GA-H55M-USB3
with USB 3.0 and it is microATX. Apparently it doesn't ship until the 18th. Get your order in now to be first in line!!!

 

[Skott]

Personally I'd wait on some positive reviews before ordering that H55M mobo. Gigabyte makes a good product but not every model they make is good. Not saying its bad. Just saying make sure its problem free and stable before buying it.

 

[frostedflakes]

That's actually pretty cool, looks like Gigabyte is putting SATA3 and USB3 on a lot of their higher end boards. That extra USB current is a really neat feature as well.

edit: Or is the extra power just a feature of the USB3 ports, or did they triple the power for the USB2 ports as well (IIRC USB 2.0 is rated for 500mA per port, so that should bring it up to 1.5A).

 

[vital]

Here's GIGABYTE GA-H55M-USB3
with USB 3.0 and it is microATX. Apparently it doesn't ship until the 18th. Get your order in now to be first in line!!!

Too bad it's not for LGA1366.. still waiting.

 

[21stHermit]

Plug one of these into your LGA 1366 mATX MB: PCIx USB 3.0 Adapters

 

[IlllI]

didnt intel delay final usb3 release until 2011 or something?
theres other chips.. via and some others, but i think i recall that with the intel ones

 

[vital]

still waiting...

 

[I4AT]

You can get matx boards with USB3 onboard, I've yet to see any with SATA3. Is SATA3 really that important to you though? There are only a few SSD's on the market that can take advantage of the extra bandwidth, and even then it's only in situational read cycles. We won't see drives that can break the SATA2 barrier in everyday usage for a long time. Why not just get a USB3 board and an add in card for SATA3 if you really need it?

 

[taltamir]

save your money, when you actually have USB3 and SATA3 hardware in 2011 you can then use that money to upgrade your mobo.
current support involve extra chips and limited speeds and overall crap implementations. Not to mention there are always issues to work through.

It is not going to be ubiquitous until intel, amd, and/or nvidia integrate it into the chipsets, and as mentioned, that is not happened for another year.

 

[vital]

You can get matx boards with USB3 onboard, I've yet to see any with SATA3. Is SATA3 really that important to you though? There are only a few SSD's on the market that can take advantage of the extra bandwidth, and even then it's only in situational read cycles. We won't see drives that can break the SATA2 barrier in everyday usage for a long time. Why not just get a USB3 board and an add in card for SATA3 if you really need it?

Well even if SATA3 isn't as important right now, I'm still waiting for a USB3 mATX mobo for the x58 chipset so I can put a LGA 1136 i7 in it. I haven't seen any yet..