Show Us Your Rig [6]

Britton30 said:

Steve you're a mind reader, I just PM'ed Jeannie about the USB expander and blamed you for it. I have hooked it up to test it but haven't "installed" it anywhere. It works nicely and takes power from a Molex connector. As a test I booted a flash drive with it and read/wrote some too. Just like having them on the board.

I agree with the rant, I have two mid range ASUS boards that both have 4 USB 2.0 headers, the more expensive Sabertooth has only 3.

Right, I think Asus thinks as you go up in price, you need fewer ports to plug things into. I know it won't matter to a lot of people but I need and use the stew out of them, but my $400 board has 0 eSATA ports, if yo can believe that. But, they were kind enough to give you a sata port to be used for an eSATA connection at mid board, but just 1. I typically use a minimum of 2 and usually 3. I had to buy some neat attachments to make some.


EDIT: OK, I will freely admit to being crazy. I do a lot of backups to at least 3 different hard drives. I'm obsessive compulsive enough that I have backups of the backups. So, I use a lot of esata ports in my obsessivness. But, I do need a sale on Hard drives. I'm running low. I think I have only about 6 or 7 TB of extra drives. And crankypenguin thought he was crazy. He hasn't met me yet, really. I'm way over the top; about a lot of things.

essenbe said:

Britton30 said:

Steve you're a mind reader, I just PM'ed Jeannie about the USB expander and blamed you for it. I have hooked it up to test it but haven't "installed" it anywhere. It works nicely and takes power from a Molex connector. As a test I booted a flash drive with it and read/wrote some too. Just like having them on the board.

I agree with the rant, I have two mid range ASUS boards that both have 4 USB 2.0 headers, the more expensive Sabertooth has only 3.

Right, I think Asus thinks as you go up in price, you need fewer ports to plug things into. I know it won't matter to a lot of people but I need and use the stew out of them, but my $400 board has 0 eSATA ports, if yo can believe that. But, they were kind enough to give you a sata port to be used for an eSATA connection at mid board, but just 1. I typically use a minimum of 2 and usually 3. I had to buy some neat attachments to make some.

Gigabyte, which I won't ever buy again, has TWO USB 3.0 19 pin headers on a lot if their boards, ASUS only one on any of them.

Board comes tomorrow! Can't wait to start building this rig again!

The only thing that is stumping me rite now is how to connect one of my case fans to the mobo. The wire is too short to reach it. Might need to buy an extension.

Or use a Y-cable, run two fans from one fan header. They will run up to 1W of fans.

Here is a USB Y-header splitter that I used to be able to have extra USB connection off of the MB

Doc, the only fallacy about a lot of those expansion headers as well as USB docs is the same. You are still running everything through 1 port. At some point that port can only take so much traffic and will either slow down or stop working because it's overloaded. I know, what choice do we have and I still use all those goodies. I just try to use them in a judicious manner so I don't have problems.

Its for my top front case fan. It has to reach all the way down next to the 24pin connector. The cables are very short. I may need to order 2 extensions. I have enough ports but not long enough cables.

1 fan extension will do it for you. I think the ones I buy are 12" long, which will reach almost anywhere on the board. just hiding the cable is the problem. Hook it to the rear of the case. Don't worry as much about where to hide it and what will it interfere with. Or, better still, use a fan controller.

I should have pointed out the Y-cables add length too, I have some 4" and 8" ones.

I found a 12" extension. 2 for 5$ perfect