 So today, I'll be having a quick look at a product from ASUS This is the U3 s6 and U3 s6 stands for none other than USB 3 SATA 6 so this is a PCI Express 4x With bridge card and basically they're saying it is the only right choice now ASUS has talked quite a bit about how their implementation of USB 3.0 And SATA 6 gigabit per second is better than what anyone else on the market has so they've worked the same technology into Their allian card as they have into their motherboards that feature those feet well feature have those features by default So first thing reason number one only with the PLX bridge can they get full speed? Yeah for your USB and 3.0 and SATA 6 so you fully unleash the true performance Okay, and reason number two is only with PCIe 4x will you have enough bandwidth? Okay, so what they're saying is that they're using a PLX chip, and they're also using a PCIe 4x interface Which is what they're saying no one else on the market is doing so here on the back They've got some graphs that have little star bursts about exclaiming stuff so USB 3.0 performance test They're saying it's 34% better than a card using a 1x PCI Express slot and then over here they're saying that for SATA 6 gigabit per second It's actually 50% faster than a card that uses a 1x slot now over here We've got the general specs and so it's got okay You've got two internal connectors and those are the SATA 6 gigabit per second ports Then you have two external connectors those are the USB 3 ports now You should note that both of these are backwards compatible with SATA 2 and SATA 1 and with USB 2 and USB 1 respectively very cool the interface is PCIe 4 as they've talked about quite a bit on the packaging The configuration supported is AHCI mode alright and then for compatible models You've got a list here of compatible ASUS motherboard models So you might want to check that out before you go and buy one of these and other than that I guess there's not really too much to show on the box, so why don't we have a look at the card itself? Okay There's not a whole lot of... oh okay, there's more included than I thought so first thing we find is a couple of right angle SATA cables So I'm going to go ahead and assume that those are SATA 6 gigabit per second ready mind you there's no actual difference As far as I know you'd have to have a pretty shoddy SATA cable for it to not work with the new standard Next inside we find the user's guide Show that to the camera, okay And also included inside you have a driver CD, so don't use that download the latest drivers off the ASUS website And in here. There's a couple couple different things They've got the same summary that they had on the back of the box, and thank you for buying And that's pretty much it. I mean I guess there's not a whole lot to it you install the card You install the driver, and then you plug stuff into it And then you plug the card in and then you plug the card in and then you plug the card in and then you plug the card in And then you plug the card in and then you plug the card in and then you plug the card in and then you plug the card in Seems straightforward enough, well why don't we have a look at the card itself Uses a black PCB which I always like to see I mean the last thing you want to have is like a high performance Schmexie looking motherboard And then you have to throw like some ancient forest green PCI card in it Okay, let me just make sure that my zoom is actually working there Okay, so it's a pretty busy looking PCB. They've actually got a lot of capacitors They've got their PLX chip right here in the middle of it That's probably a lot of the cost of this particular unit as well as all of the components that they're building You know I can't actually figure out why this is such a busy PCB You can see they're using the same NEC USB 3.0 chipset that almost everyone out there is using right now And then for the SATA 6 chipset they're using a Marvell chipset So here are your SATA 6 gigabit per second connectors Okay, so one at the back one on the top and then on the back of the card You've got your two USB 3.0 connectors and at the bottom you've got the PCI Express 4x connection I guess there's not really much more to say about it than that. So thank you for checking out my unboxing of the US U3 S6