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Upgrading USB 2 to USB 3 ports on a computer case
Paul wrote:
Yes wrote: Flasherly wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 07:18:02 -0000 (UTC), "Yes" wrote: I have an ASUS M4A89GTD PRO USB3 mobo. Damn -- $359... https://www.amazon.com/Asus-M4A89GTD.../dp/B003964KK8 If an older model for Amazon's hm, discretionary merchant-pricing slots. ASUS calling it a Pro/USB3 is a little redundant. I figured when I got a socket three, although Gigabyte and somewhat more dated by present driver standards, is it was probably how things are just done for USB3 convenience: you get USB3 stuck on the back-plane. Least I did, two plus two, for the extra dedicated USB3 ports sandwiched into thereabouts, alongside usual two USB2 ports adjacent the NetWerk RJ45 connection. Wow, you've got 12 USB2 (8-ports MID-board pin arrays), which is kind of totally something. . .I guess. ...Firewire, cool - the "standard" for sound recording gear for some time. Onboard graphics -- I like, the way to go, at least for me. But I only just paid $50 for the Gigabyte AM3 because the floor dropped out on octal cores, a little while ago, due to Ryzen. A low-wattage variant, primo -- octal bulldozer type, AKA .not. a 250-watt monstrosity, for an unheard-of $90 splurge, plus ensuring any driver related issues are grandfathered in. ...Probably goes like a duck into water in typical *nix box configs. Offhand, a Phenom six-cores sounds conceivably older, maybe a year or two, in the ASUS config. I can't believe, though, a build like that would eat two HDD, DVD, and case fan. Outer Limits stuff. Digging into PCs plain ain't done right if it ain't fun. And scared don't count when it's out of bounds;- most rules fall under: if you can pay then that's the ticket to play. I can't say I'm surprised at Amazon's price, but I have a very low opinion of their pricing on a lot of items anyway. I bought my mobo back in 2010 or so. It was a lot less costly then :-) IIRC, ASUS offered two similarly named mobos at the time when I bought it; perhaps one was for the European market and one for the U.S. ??? - shrug. Regardless, my mobo has held up well over the years and still does what I want it to do. Where it shows its age is wrt new tech. Data transfer speed is something I like, so it'd be nice to have USB 3.1 capability. And I seem to recall reading something about similar progress for SATA transfer speeds. My mobo of course handles USB 3.0, not the newer USB 3.1. In retrospect, the mobo is probably not a good match with the case because the PSU is located on the bottom. The mobo has two slots for a graphics card. I tried the suggestion to move the graphics card to the other slot in order to make the PCI-e slots accessible. Doing so freed up access to the PCI-e slots but created what seems to me a different problem - the graphics card was immediately above the fan of the PSU. There was a narrow gap between the card and the PSU. I was worried that the flow of the air from the PSU would overheat the graphics card - the PSU fan and the graphics card's fan faced other directly - so I placed the card back to where I had it to begin with. John Isn't the PSU fan "pulling" in the "exhaust" direction ? The warm cloud around the video, should be moving through the PSU. (Just as normally, a PSU would pull the warm cloud from the CPU, through the PSU cabinet.) And your motherboard has nice slots, as they're all Rev.2 type. https://s15.postimg.cc/8ueqc9mez/rev2_lanes.gif Older USB3 chips, have only a single lane (x1). The newer USB3.1 chips have x2 wiring and an x4 edge connector. So far, I haven't been "blown away" by the improvement. I don't have good enough test devices for that. Paul You're right. The air flow from the graphics card pushes down towards the bottom of the case. That of the PSU fan seems to be sucking air downwards and pushing it out the back of the case. I interpreted the PSU description I read to mean that the PSU sucked the air in from the rear and directed it up into the case in order to blow air over the CPU and the fan at the top of the case would vent the hot air out the top. John |
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