$35 LAN Party...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 10:29:38AM -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
> According to Wikipedia's entry on Ivy Bridge, the chipset does include
> USB3 - and they do make Ivy Bridge i3 chips.  The NUC may well use an
> older i3, but I think it's a poor move to not include USB3 either way.

Hmm, so it does.  I just checked my Z77 board, and sure enough it has
both an intel and an ASMedia USB3 controller (Asus clearly thought 2
ports was not enough).

USB3 ports do also require more power than USB2 ports.

I suspect the lack of USB3 is because they used the QA77 chipset.
I believe only the Z77 has USB3 and that would be overkill for this board.

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Len Sorensen
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