Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3-iSSD Motherboard Comes w/ 20GB Intel SSD

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GIGABYTE Offers Bundle on Z68XP-UD3-iSSD Motherboard featuring 20GB Intel® SSD 311 Series

SSD Bundle Enables Users to Effortlessly Take Advantage of Intel® Smart Response Technology for an Instant System Performance Boost

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Taipei, Taiwan, May 27, 2011 - GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and computing hardware solutions today announced the new GIGABYTE Z68XP-UD3-iSSD motherboard based on the Intel® Z68 Express chipsetand pre-bundled with the20GB Intel® Solid-State Drive 311 Series. Theincluded mSATA-based single level cell (SLC) solid-state drive (SSD), allows users to take advantage of the performance benefits of Intel® Smart Response Technology straight out of the box. The package is expected to be available to end-users in early June from selected online retailers internationally.

"We are thrilledtodeliver the world's first motherboard to come pre-bundled with an IntelSSD 311," commented Richard Chen, VP of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at GIGABYTE. "Our customers realize the performance benefits that Intel Smart Response Technology has to offer, and the Z68XP-UD3-iSSD is the easiest way for them to instantly take advantage of the performance boost."


"By offering the Intel SSD 311 Series, optimized for Intel Smart Response Technology, with GIGABYTE's Z68XP-UD3-iSSD MOTHERBOARD, we can bring the benefits of increased system responsiveness to more users," said Pete Hazen, director of marketing for Intel's Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group. "A bundle such as this offers users an easy, plug-and-play entry into the quicker response environment of caching with an SSD."


Intel® Smart Response Technology
GIGABYTE Z68 series motherboards are equipped with the much anticipated Intel® Smart Response Technology, allowing users to experience system performance similar to SSD-only systems. Intel® Smart Response technology works by using intelligent block-based caching of frequently used applications to improve system performance andresponsiveness. In fact, GIGABYTE Z68 motherboards with Intel® Smart Response Technology are able to outperform hybrid drive systems by more than 4X (PC Mark Vantage HDD test score) and deliver a 60% performance improvement over HDD-only systems in PC Mark Vantage Suite.


GIGABYTE mSATA Ready Motherboards (Total of 5 models)
GA-Z68XP-UD3-iSSD (bundled with Intel® Solid-State Drive 311 Series)
GA-Z68XP-UD3 GA-Z68XP-D3 GA-Z68AP-D3 GA-Z68P-DS3

GIGABYTE will display the GA-Z68XP-UD3-iSSD package at Computex 2011. To find out more about the GA-Z68XP-UD3-iSSD, please visit: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/produc ... x?pid=3896

[FZ1]

I was wondering when someone was going to do that.

[Major_A]

I emailed Gigabyte with a motherboard concept. I told them I would tell them if they wanted to hear it. But after the initial email they never got back to me. Oh well, guess I'll try ASRock now. Since they seem to be willing to try new things.

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what's the concept?

You got to understand these companies work with thousands of review sites and blogs on a daily basis. The board designers are in China and Taiwan anyway, so the person you'll e-mail wouldn't be a board designer anyway. These companies also don't pay for ideas, so if it's a royalty you are after it won't happen. The only thing you could do is patent the idea and then try to license or sell that.

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Integrate a battery backup that can sit in an empty 5.25 bay. Have it hooked to the motherboard where you have long enough to power down the machine. Seems pretty easy. Don't know why no one has attempted this before. Where I live we have some crappy power. Depending on the day the power can flicker for a second up to 10 times, sometimes the machine goes down sometimes it weathers the storm.

Think acrylic 5.25 reservoir but a battery backup.

Didn't want any compensation. Only want to give the idea to see if what they thought. But they acted like they didn't want to hear it. Sometimes the best ideas come from outside a company. I know that was the case with the last place I worked. If everyone is focused on the product at hand it's easy to develop a form a tunnel vision that stifles creativity.

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The only company that came close to releasing a board with a battery was ASUS when they showed off the Marine Cool prototype back in 2009 - http://www.legitreviews.com/article/922/1/