Earlier this month we gave you a look at Gigabyte’s new P55 motherboard with SATA 6.0Gbps and USB 3.0, and the fellow site Tweaktown has recently learned that the company is actually going to unleash two models with those exciting new features – P55A-UD6 and P55A-UD4P.

Gigabyte had implemented SATA3 support in its first revision of P55 motherboards that were launched back in June, but a delay was resulted by the Marvell controller issues. There is no RAID 1 support for now, but the Gigabyte product manager said Marvell may come out with a new firmware quite soon adding that ability. Gigabyte also claimed the transition from a SATA 2 to SATA 3 hard drive saw up to a 30% increase in performance.

The second refresh change is the addition of USB 3.0 support, and we can finally embrace the SuperSpeed era.

NEC USB 3.0 controller

The third big thing is tripe power USB – the manufacturer increases the amount of output power on USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports from 500 milliamps and 900 milliamps to 1500 milliamps and 2700 milliamps, respectively, which reduces the possibilities that external power supply is required.

The forth change is Gigabyte has switched over from a Foxconn socket to a Lotes socket. There have been some reports oneline of the Foxconn sockets causing problems, hence the switch.

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