Wifi 6 / Bluetooth 5.0 Question

EGomz3 · October 1, 2020

Hello,

I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos and reading online to learn about PC building, but there doesn't seem to be as much information about wifi/bluetooth connectivity.

As far as I know, if a motherboard doesn't have wifi, it also won't have bluetooth, so I'm planning on buying a wireless network adapter.

As for my question, will an older generation motherboard work with the wifi 6 and bluetooth 5.0 standard. I'm planning on getting the ASRock B365M Phantom Gaming 4 motherboard. Just mentioning that in case it's motherboard specific.

The_russian · October 1, 2020

13 minutes ago, EGomz3 said:

As for my question, will an older generation motherboard work with the wifi 6 and bluetooth 5.0 standard.

Yes it will work, the motherboard doesn’t affect that.

EGomz3 · October 1, 2020

Okay cool. I actually have one more question regarding bluetooth usb adapters. Would there be any benefit to using bluetooth on a wifi pci-e card vs a usb bluetooth adapter?

Too be more specific, will there be any noticable latency if I use a cheaper usb bluetooth adapter vs the pci-e card?

TheJedi · October 1, 2020

26 minutes ago, EGomz3 said:

Okay cool. I actually have one more question regarding bluetooth usb adapters. Would there be any benefit to using bluetooth on a wifi pci-e card vs a usb bluetooth adapter?

Too be more specific, will there be any noticable latency if I use a cheaper usb bluetooth adapter vs the pci-e card?

The cheaper USB Bluetooth adapter will not be as great as a PCI. I purchased one a few months ago and I could not use it with the windows settings bluetooth menu.

I would go with the PCIe card

Alex Atkin UK · October 2, 2020

14 hours ago, CloudPC said:

The cheaper USB Bluetooth adapter will not be as great as a PCI. I purchased one a few months ago and I could not use it with the windows settings bluetooth menu.

I would go with the PCIe card

Funnily enough, even the PCIe cards Bluetooth is USB. The big difference is that the WiFi 6 is likely an Intel card so using a better chipset. The range is also vastly superior as it will use one of the WiFi antennas vs the tiny trace of the PCB on USB adapters and potentially much cheaper unreliable chipsets on the plug-in USB adapters.