“We at Bjorn3D.com going to be looking at one of Gigabyte’s motherboards that received SATA 3.0, USB 3.0, and Gigabyte’s very own USB Power III(Gigabytes 333 Design). Gigabyte’s X58A-UD3 motherboard is one of Gigabyte’s most affordable X58A offerings, coming in at $209 USD. The one area that the P55 chipset is hindered, is the amount of PCI-E lanes it has. The P55 chipset supports only 16x PCI-E lanes. That means when running two cards capable of 16x PCI-E each, have to resort to running at 8x each due to the 16x total PCI-E lane bandwidth then the added SATA 3.0 and USB 3.0. There have been workarounds on some P55 based boards but the price comes in with a performance hit. What makes this capability so nice on an enthusiast class chipset, is there are no limitations. We can have our cake & ice cream, and eat it too.”

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