Asus has launched the first USB 3.0 motherboard, the Asus Xtreme Design P7DP55DE-E Premium, which uses a third party USB 3.0 controller.

The Asus Asus Xtreme Design P7DP55DE-E Premium is an Intel P55 based motherboard, it comes with two USB 3.0 ports, as well as 10 USB 2.0 ports, plus a pair of 5GB.s SATA ports.

It also has six 3GB/S SATA ports, two PCIe x 16 slots for graphics cards and it supports both AMD’s CrossFireX and NVIDIA’s SLI cards, plus a pair of Gigabit Ethernet ports.

There is no word on pricing or availability as yet.

Reg Hardware via Gizmodo