ASUS P6X58 Premium motherboard arrives complete with USB 3.0 ports
By Donald Melanson 
posted July 20th 2009 6:03PM
posted July 20th 2009 6:03PM
We've seen cables, controllers, drivers and years of promises, and it looks like we now finally have some pictures of the first official USB 3.0 motherboard out in the wild. That milestone comes courtesy of ASUS, which looks to have gone all out (or as far out as motherboards can go) with its new P6X58 Premium model. As you can see above, it packs a pair of easily identifiable USB 3.0 ports and three standard USB 2.0 ports, along with accommodations for a Core i7 processor, six DDR3 memory slots, three PCI-Express 2.0 slots, and plenty of other standard fare. Still no word on a price or release date, unfortunately, and the folks at Xfastest unsurprisingly weren't able to provide any benchmarks or the like, considering that there isn't much in the way of actual USB 3.0 gear to test it with just yet.
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I thought it was the other way around...
For a few months: Hey, my bleeding edge motherboard has USB3.0!
For ever after: You only have 2 USB3.0 ports?
Nice board but I am going to wait for Gigabyte's version.
Well, this should mean Apple should adopt this in....what...2020?
;)
Apple was one of the first computer manufacturers to have USB... way back in 1998.
We'll have to see how they adopt future connections. They will probably jump on the Firewire 3200 standard as well as USB 3.0.
Hmm, but uhm, any motherboards with hat wireless US stuff?
all hats are wireless in the US ;)
USB*
You'd be surprised of the amount of wires involved in hats.
No mention of the VDR used, I read somewhere intel is about to release VDR12.0 specification and that's required for their next gen CPU's, whereas even the very latest 'only' do VDR11.1
Something to worry about now that you heard about it, where before you never heard the term even :)
Make that VRD, I keep switching those letters dammit.
Yeah, that's cool and all, but how long will we have to wait until we can actually use the ports? When will the big three-0 become mainstream? Will two-point-oh die off immediately?
I really hope this doesn't have serial or ps/2 ports. I think that look terrible and I haven't used either in years.
Sadly they don't even supply a header on the mobo for serial any more often, even if they use monitoring chips that have full functionality for it and only need a few pins to connect to.
Seems a waste to not even be willing to supply a small header on the board itself, it would cost them 10 cents.
http://pic.xfastest.com/MB/ASUS/P6X58-PREMIUM/P6X58-P-04.jpg
They even use 2 PS/2, which is odd since several manufacturers went with just one now.
Yes, they went all out on this board. Except they forgot to add eSata ports.
FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
woohhhh holy ********************** i came
Vulgarity aside, I'm not sure if you're using the correct past-tense.
Ya it was my roomates.....they're crazy....they tied me up. They were having their way with me and right when i was about to call the police....i came....and that was nice.
sweet. now can't wait till I upgrade my tower next :3
Now someone needs to make some USB 3.0 devices D:
You guys do know that you don't have to upgrade you whole system, there will undoubtedly be USB 3 PCI cards...
You guys know that you dont have to upgrade your whole system, there will undoubtedly be USB 3 PCI cards...
PCI? haha, you mean PCIe, PCI could not even try to do USB3.0
Micro-USB 3.0 connector is hideous.
Epic fail? USB 3.0 is definitely a welcome upgrade I suppose but I'm assuming this board will be 300-400 dollars at least. The fact that they don't even have esata support is pathetic. Unlike USB 3.0, esata is here already with hundreds of supported devices.
Aren't all socket 1366 mobo's $300? It's because they need many layers PCB's I hear to trace all the triple channel RAM interface lines, that's why intel now thought up the new old system of dual channel and fewer pins 'budget' line with the socket 1156 and the P55 chipset.
3 express slot/i7/USB 3.0 and SATA 6gb
I just came.
No AMD love?
You were one of the better ones asus :(
It says the NEC USB3.0 chip costs $15 when bought in bulk, so I'm sure they can put it on the next AMD board too without too much trouble, if they make 'premium' AMD boards that is.
Jeeze. If they were messing with the connector why not finally fix the orientation issue? How much time have we all wasted with flash drives and other USB products getting the connector in backwards. It'd sure be nice if the connector had mirror contacts and worked either way.
that is sexy.
i feel outdated. i just bought a macbook. HAHA
No eSATA? :(
So the USB 3.0 slot looks crappier and flimsey as heck on that mobo... Always nice when they do that.. Like with the DVI and HDMI ports.. Can almost break them off with your thumb...
Yea I don't think they really thought the ports would be used much. That would be my only guess :/ that is lame though.
The next 6 months will be a great time to build a new PC.
Just curious as to what genius decided to make the USB connector symmetrical instead of shape keyed in some way? Why?
Why even have USB 2.0. USB 3.0 is suppose to be backwards compatible. Don't tell me some one doesn't trust the technology ;P
ASUS is still the manufacturer to beat as far as motherboards go... :)
Just think of the sampling rate of those lazer mice with USB 3.0! :)