Gigabyte HA55 1156

[GIBURROWS]

It says it has USB 3.0 and for the life of me I have tried every port but I can't find them, am I supposed to sort them in the BIOS or download a new driver for them....?

 

[GIBURROWS]

Anyone......

 

[RJC]

Can you supply the full motherboard detail, as the Gigabyte boards are GA-H55 xxx.

Some of the H55 boards don't have USB 3.

 

[GIBURROWS]

Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H I am sure it said it on the box....?

 

[RJC]

That board does not have USB 3 but does have the option of supplying 3 x power boost on the USB 2 sockets.

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3503#sp

 

[GIBURROWS]

Those ******** (they didn't kill Kenny) I better invest in a better motherboard then.....

 

[GIBURROWS]

Thanks very much for your response

 

[RJC]

Your welcome

Daft question : do you need USB 3? Or do you fancy a upgrade

 

[GIBURROWS]

Not a need as such, I mean I do transfer a lot of stuff to sepreate drives but I have pretty much everything else new on my first build so maybe I made a mistake on the motherboard?

20-30mb a second isn't an awful transfer rate until you try transferring 120gb!!

 

[RJC]

Are the storage devices being used USB 3? Otherwise you would see no or very little performance increase.

 

[GIBURROWS]

Yup 3 Western Digital 2TB Harddrives, do they transfer at 10x the normal USB 2.0?

 

[RJC]

You would need to purchase USB 3 enclosures Or use the esata connector on the motherboards I/O shield, I use this when backing up my pc to a external hard drive via a Akasa enclosure.

 

[GIBURROWS]

I may leave it till when I sell this system and go for another build.....

 

[RJC]

No probs, I will keep a eye out for a future thread

 

[GIBURROWS]

Oh for sure it will be a stupid thread when I build a beast of a PC with crossfired graphics cards just to play something silly like Football Manager or C & C!!!