USB 3.0-equipped PCs due before end of the year

Orbital Shark · 05 Jul 2009

Nice

Can't wait for that, i'm sick of 20MB/s on my current USB HD. Would mean new hardware but it'll be worth it

Mercurial · 05 Jul 2009

holy ****.... MS got lucky O.O...

Windows 7 Readyboost + usb 3.0 =O

Corei7Extreme · 05 Jul 2009

I'm going to hold out on upgrading my motherboard until they also relaunch the Rampage II Extreme with Sata 6Gbp/S,USB 3.0, and PCI Express 3.0.

YozMan · 05 Jul 2009

DUDE, that will be unFREAKIN'believable!!!

Robert Cartman · 05 Jul 2009

I hope it will come out as PCI Express card too 'cause I don't want to change my m'board nowadays.
Do U think if i connect a USB2.0 HDD to the USB3.0 port it will be faster? Or both device has to be 3.0?

Romulinx2 · 05 Jul 2009

Thanks Aaron, more fun toys to come :)

messjess · 05 Jul 2009

Damn and i thought my USB stick getting up to 70MBps was fast. It's going to be around 400MBps?

Universal Serial Bus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ohgami · 05 Jul 2009

robertoszwald said:

I hope it will come out as PCI Express card too 'cause I don't want to change my m'board nowadays.
Do U think if i connect a USB2.0 HDD to the USB3.0 port it will be faster? Or both device has to be 3.0?

From what I read both have to be 3.0 (Gotta make money by making you re-buy everything) but 3.0 is still backward compatible so you can plug it in to a 3.0 port and it will work plus the plugs are different. The only plus I can think of is the 3.0 might be a little better at handling the legacy devices.

fakeasdf · 05 Jul 2009

robertoszwald said:

I hope it will come out as PCI Express card too 'cause I don't want to change my m'board nowadays.
Do U think if i connect a USB2.0 HDD to the USB3.0 port it will be faster? Or both device has to be 3.0?

Doubtful. Both devices need to be 3.0 to take advantage of it...

messjess said:

Damn and i thought my USB stick getting up to 70MBps was fast. It's going to be around 400MBps?

Universal Serial Bus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The speed of the controller is 400 Mbps, but the speed of devices are a whole different story. Speaking of which, 70 MBps is faster than the current USB 2.0 standard :) Very few USB sticks hit 20 MBps, most are in the lower numbers. Similarly even if the guys External Hard Drive above was USB 3.0, more than likely he wouldn't have a noticeable performance increase due to the fact that most hard drives don't exceed the current USB 2.0 speeds.

Don't get me wrong, I want them to :) I think this is an awesome improvement, especially the possibility of power increase, I love the idea of USB devices not needing external power.