Well, I guess they are ALMOST First! Earlier on, ECS announced their AMD 890GX chipset enabled boards. Though both ECS and GIGABYTE’s board offer SATA 3.0 and USB 3.0, the GIGABYTE offers up something called 3x Power Boost to their USB channels, allowing you up to three times the power for hungry USB peripherals. Their solution is based off an NEC uPD70200 host controller which gives it both quick USB 3.0 transfers and backwards compatibility with USB 2.0 devices. With USB 3.0, SATA 3.0 and 3X Power Boost, GIGABYTE has coined this their “333 Onboard Acceleration”.

GIGABYTE’s Ultra Durable technology is also in this board giving you more copper in the PCB and higher quality capacitors and components for longer life and better (overclocking) performance. Something GIGABYTE is known for. Of course, don’t forget that the AMD 890GX chipset offers support for their new 6-Core CPUs and the beefy power on this board is ready for it, despite being an all in one solution with integrated graphics, which aren’t too shabby by the way, sporting an HD 4290 IGP, hybrid CrossFireX and DirectX 10.1.

Hit the “read more” for the full press release and a couple more glamour shots.

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It’s true! ECS Elitegroup is still alive and kicking and they too will be coming out with some new motherboards based on the AMD 890GX chipset. The new chipsets gives the unified platforms some extra firepower including better integrated graphics that may actually be able to play your games and both USB 3.0 and SATA 6.0 Gbps support. The two upper end models support 140W CPUs which means that that the new AMD 6 Core CPUs should be fully compatible with their top end pair of boards.

Full press release complete with Chinese’isms is posted for your amusement along with pictures of the new boards.

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The motherboard company with the unfortunate name, ASRock, has just announced their newest entry into the INTEL P55 race. Their newest board supports supports SATA3, USB 3.0 and eSATA3 Technologies, hence “333″. The “True” part comes from the fact that unlike some of the boards on the market that utilizes a PCI-E x1 channel to support the SATA3 and USB 3.0 connectivity, the P55 Deluxe3 actually uses its own separate PCI-E x16 lane through a special bridge that provides full bandwidth, even when utilizing CrossFireX or SLI.

Some boards will turn that x16 into an x8 slot when loaded up with GPUs for multi-card configurations, when utilizing USB 3.0 and SATA 3. This board doesn’t thanks to this special bridge hence “True 333″.

Full press release posted verbatim (as in not my spelling mistakes) from ASRock along with extra pictures and illustrations after the jump.

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Taipei, Taiwan, February 4, 2010 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions today proudly launched their new flagship motherboard for the P55 chipset platform, the GA-P55A-UD7. Continuing in the UD7 tradition (after the launch of the GA-X58A-UD7), the GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD7 delivers awesome features for power users and gaming enthusiasts such as a 24 phase power design , NVIDIA® 3-Way SLI™/ATI® CrossFireX™, as well as support for USB 3.0, 3x USB Power Boost (unique to GIGABYTE), and SATA 3.0 (6Gbps).

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To my neighbours to the north, hope you have a fabulous day today! If you celebrate like we do, don’t eat too much, don’t set anything on fire, spend time with family and/or friends, and in general enjoy yourself while you celebrate your country.

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