Asus cancels its first USB 3.0 motherboard
ASUS HAS TOLD The INQUIRER that the world's first USB 3.0 based motherboard, its P6X58, has been cancelled with no real explanation as to why.
World plus dog cheered the arrival of the world's first USB 3.0 motherboard last week.
But now Asus informs us it has cancelled its P6X58 USB 3.0 motherboard. It has ceased to be, expired and gone to meet its maker, shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible.
We tried to find out why the board has been cut, as the interest in its arrival had been so high. However, the only explanation we got from an Asus spokesperson was that it's been cancelled "not for any particularly interesting reasons."
They added "Asus have [sic] got some interesting developments technology wise, we'll keep you updated when they're announced." Which doesn't explain the company's reasoning for having killed the P6X58 in its prime, or rather, even before it ever had a prime.
We're guessing that Asus might be holding out for a better chipset, possibly aiming for another feature-rich motherboard to launch USB 3.0, or maybe it's just waiting to see what everyone else does.
Fujitsu could be one that Asus is keeping its eye on, as the Japanese computer manufacturing giant has just announced that its upcoming motherboards will have USB 3.0. µ
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It's the only major reason for a Windows 7 SP1: support for USB 3.0.
Now imagine how people would react if they went and bought a computer in October with the brand new W7 and a motherboard with USB 3.0 that would only be supported by *gasp* Linux!
It is not depends with the OS, but currently only marvell that have developed sata 600 controler and they know the chips had severe bug that must redesigned.
I finally can't stand it anymore. Please cease saying "World Plus Dog."
I don't trust them anymore to give me a reliable MB
Asus has a history of rushing crap out the door to be the "first". The fools buy up these defective POS mobos as if they were gold. Then they pay the price for a malfunctioning POS. Must be this time Asus' POS mobo had so many defects it wouldn't function at all, otherwise they'd have pumped it out the door to gullible consumers.
Fujitsu makes retail consumer motherboards? That's news to me. Haven't seen any reviews of their products in usual review websites.
Its the new thing to do.
but after using a few in a row for amd builds that had weird problems I'm no longer a big fan, especially with companies like Gigabyte putting out such stellar boards.
Asus needs to get its act together, it seems like all the product diversification has affected their focus.
Perhaps Asus should now be re-named Anus?
I have a P5E3 Deluxe mobo & getting any RAM(4gb) to run on it,is nigh impossible.
There boards are crap.
There software updates only come out when their boards are out of date,if then.
What's the point of marketing a board,as the best thing since sliced bread,charging top whack for it,then finding it's an ffing lemon?
I'd agree with the comments on bad Asus boards, I recently built 4 systems using the Phenom II X3, okay they weren't super spec systems, fairly basic really but they all had stability problems with Windows. Replaced the boards with Biostar boards and what do you know, all the problems have gone away.
I was warned about Asus boards being crap years back but I thought they might have improved, guess they haven't. I'd go as far as saying that I'd rather have an ECS board than an Asus board and that's saying something!
Rob
It's a waste of money for now. There are virtually no devices now, and few will be made over the next year or two that will need its features. The only "interesting" feature is its faster charge capability, but that'll require more power from the motherboard as well, and USB 2.0 generally fills that gap well.
So I wouldn't bother either. I wouldn't be surprised if USB 3.0 becomes like Firewire: an extremely niche market. Though I am surprised that ASUS chose not to include it anyway, since they like packing every last damn useless feature into their $350 motherboards. No thanks.
BB:
You're very very wrong, USB3 is needed yesterday, all USB based flash drives are now bottle-necked at ~20-25mb/sec due to USB2.
USB3 will have many storage devices ready to be consumed right off the bat.
Maron: the usb 2.0 spec supports up to 480 Mb/s, with 20Mb/s being around the minimum. If the thumb drive makers wanted to enable faster transfers they could, but the extra costs would be passed on to the consumers.
@Shab
I agree, Gigabyte boards rock.
Grank,
I was referring to high-end USB Flash Drives and I meant 20-25megabytes/sec. The USB 480megabit/sec (60megabyte/sec) theoretical speed is not something you really see, even on high end flash drives.
The over head of USB 2.0 limits the transfer speeds to around 44MB/s. High end flash drives are not fast enough to swamp a 2.0 link but they are getting close.
Maybe the reason was that ASUS used a Marvell USB3 chipset rather then the one from a "famed" chipset maker. This might just put their X58 chipset in question.
EU might want another billion for such action (if it so did happened.....).
...It is an ex-motherboard!
because there is too much hardware and software that do not support it on the market. it would run a new IT war between giants