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[Borgus Bohr]

Regarding mouse and keyboard. Is USB 2.0 better than USB 3.0/C, when connecting into the motherboard? Pros and Cons.

[whoisjaya]

Not an expert on this but I think you may get some like creature comforts with newer iterations/generations, like better hot-plugability or whatever but I think from a pure bandwidth standpoint the difference should be negligible if anything since I don't think a keyboard/mouse would usually put out anywhere near enough data to saturate even a usb 1.1 connector.
Could be wrong tho.

[emosun]

Just now, Jonas_2909 said:

I don't think a keyboard/mouse would usually put out anywhere near enough data to saturate even a usb 1.1 connector.

Keyboards and mice don't put out enough data to saturate serial ports on 80s computers let alone ps2 or usb. Basically bits of data not even kilobits

[Skiiwee29]

LTT actually did a video on this a few months back testing out a claim from AsRock about USB ports and if they actually matter or not for peripherals such as mice and keyboards.

 

 

[Borgus Bohr]

4 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

LTT actually did a video on this a few months back testing out a claim from AsRock about USB ports and if they actually matter or not for peripherals such as mice and keyboards.

 

 

solid

[TheChromaBristlenose]

19 hours ago, Skiiwee29 said:

LTT actually did a video on this a few months back testing out a claim from AsRock about USB ports and if they actually matter or not for peripherals such as mice and keyboards.

 

 

Bit of a tangent here, but that video missed out on quite a few things due to inadequate testing, and I believe someone from Razer reached out to them afterwards about it too.

 

Polling-related issues with USB HS devices can definitely be a thing when sharing a crowded controller, even if the actual data being transferred is within the theoretical maximum bandwidth simply due to the frequency of inputs being received. It's not subtle, either - mice in particular will immediately become unusable from the packet loss.

 

The issue with the testing here is that when traffic is low across all USB controllers, it doesn't matter what port you use. There's no significant difference in latency or smoothness, and the video took this to mean the "gaming ports" are useless, which is demonstrably not the case if you have a lot of things plugged in.

 

To be fair to LTT, though, they conducted their claims in accordance with ASRock's over-the-top marketing. You can achieve the same thing on most motherboards by managing your devices according to the motherboard block diagram. ASRock just made it easier for the user, and if they'd stopped there it would've been a nice feature, but instead they had to ruin it by making claims of "lower latency" and "patent pending".

 

TLDR; "Magic USB ports" can be useful in certain scenarios, but LTT didn't test it properly due to ASRock making stupid marketing claims.