Will the Gigabyte GA P55M-UD4R come to the US?

[ehume]

The Gigabyte GA P55A-UD4P is available in the US. The GA P55A-UD4R is not. The -P has the "Fritz chip" - the TPM module. The -R does not.

The manual for the GA P55A-UD4P/R has this to say about the TPM chip: "This feature is optional due to different regional policy."

According to the current Wikipedia entry,

The TPM was sardonically dubbed the "Fritz chip" by Professor Ross Anderson, Security Engineering Professor at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, in reference to the former United States Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, who according to Anderson "worked tirelessly in Congress to make TC a mandatory part of all consumer electronics."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module#cite_note-6

Will I have to send away to Canada to get the P55A-UD3R?

 

[lopri]

You have the control over whether to enable TPM in the BIOS. It's an addition, not a mandatory to an end-user. (at least for now)

 

[ehume]

Well, you would know that: You have the EP45-UD3p board.

But maybe I'm being unduly paranoid. I can't find the P55A-UD3R board in Canada, either.