Friday, May 27, 2011

Gigabyte motherboard comes with an Intel SSD

GA-Z68XP-UD3-ISSD has just made its appearance on the Gigabyte website. She has the distinction of having a port MSAT and be supplied with a 311 Intel SSD 20 GB storage media This was designed to take advantage of the founder of Smart Response, a technology that provides a link to a DSS hard disk to improve performance (see "Larsen Creek: SSD" cache "Intel").

This motherboard upscale is the first to offer this kind of bundle. Gigabyte is the first manufacturer to have announced motherboards Z68 MSAT shipping port. There were four so far, Z68XP-UD3, Z68XP-D3-D3 and Z68AP Z68P-DS3 (see "Gigabyte card with Z68 port MSAT). GA-Z68XP-UD3-ISSD added to the list today.

This is actually the card Z68XP-UD3, but with an Intel SSD in the box. Specifications are identical. There is a 7.1 HD audio, an S / PDIF, chip Gigabit Ethernet, two PCI-Express share 16 lines, three PCI-Express x1 and two PCI slots. The card also has four SATA 6 Gb / s, six SATA 3 Gb / s and two FireWire ports.

Finally, it can support 14 ports and 4 USB 2.0 ports USB 3.0. The price of the bundle is not known, but it should be less than the sum of the motherboard and the DSS sold separately, but more than that a majority of consumers are willing to put in such a component. If Gigabyte does not market its Z68XP-UD3 GA-ISSD-at an exorbitant price, the offer could be interesting.

On published test [Hard] | OCP show that adding the 311 SSD 20GB comes with the card and coupled to disk drive Western Digital 3 TB, and 8 GB memory allows you to start Windows 7 within 10 seconds. This solution is not as fast as using a 100 GB SSD containing the operating system and applications, according to AnandTech, but the performance gain is interesting.

Smart Response also avoids having to juggle multiple volumes, which is important for some users.

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