Too few boards are placing it in there and preventive your choices to just 1 ASUS board aren’t a good thought.

Intel is allegedly holding back on releasing USB 3.0 until either late next year or yet 2011.

Not only can it be additional in if you require it but like the reviewer said....going to be a long time before anything utilizes it....kind of like the novel Seagate SATA drives.

Fine the word "Future proof" is really a dead word IMO because daily something latest comes out and so if you desire to wait for something you can' purchase anything.

Mesh... as much as SATA 3 and USB 3 are anxious:

1) You can at all times purchase an expansion card later

2) eSATA can be used in substitute of USB 3.0 immediately (just may not be hot-swappable)

3) SSDs are actually the only belongings which will fully use the speed and they aren't cheap enough or fast sufficient to justify waiting.

4) CAT 6 cable + Gigabit routers are the way to choose fast home-networking

5) Did I mention you can just purchase an expansion card when the time approaches?

Yes you can obtain the ASUS and ECS growth cards but the trick is.... these motherboards from Asus are already coming out very soon, by December we should observe them on shelves and then we can have the OPTION to also purchase the USB 3.0 growth cards for the PCIe to have even more thus making your X58 or P55 working until USB3.0 is the norm or standard which will be in about 2-5 years. We already recognize that the hexacore core i9s will be used on X58 boards so might also purchase an X58 with the USB 3.0onboard and ready, plus expand. This is advice for those who are planning on building a next generation PC in the next few months, not in the long period or next year but in 2009. It makes the most sense if you are planning on making the best system presently probable with future references.

I purchased a computer way back in 1998 that didn't have any USB ports. What I did was I bought a card that has USB 2.0 ports on it. Fine I can't expect 2011. I might have to do the identical thing. As long as the OS that you have on your computer supports USB 3.0.

That's ok.

My awful that was an LGA1556 motherboard with USB 3.0. There are some also out for that but Id counsel ppl that DO have the budget to obtain an X58 mb in its place and expect the ones to come out with Usb3.0.

There will be also Intel H57 Motherboards looming which would support future CPU that has Intel IGP support. I was speculating about the IGP's result on video card's GPU. IGP might bring faster presentation for video cards. ASUS had already shown P7H57D-V EVO motherboard. Unluckily, I still don't hear about Intel 32nm quad core CPU yet. However, there is Clarkdale 32nm dual core CPU impending in early 2010 which support IGP. Clarkdale's IGP core would be 45nm and the ordinary general-use core is 32nm.

There is also a new cheaper ASUS P7P55D-E PRO with onboard USB 3.0 and SATA 3 support without having to rely on PLX add-on expansion card.

That's why I said IMO for me though the next 6-core CPUs will be well for X58 in prospect but there will forever be something newer around the corner too, but as I said it’s a subject of opinions.