Kartowl :
if you know how a PC works you would know
Wow, the condescension. Some people take anonymity as license to be a dick...at the same time, you never know who you're being a dick to....
Kartowl :
that a chipset handles the USB ports (not only of course) and the chipset built in there isn't a high end chipset so there can't be only USB 3.0 ports or just 1 USB 2.0 port and 5 USB 3.0 ports as far as i know, correct me if i'm wrong and show me the source
USB 3.0 is no more expensive to implement than 2.0. For instance, VIA's host controller chip for USB 3.0 is
the exact same price as their 2.0 chip.
ZDnet speculated that Intel is intentionally slow in adopting 3.0 in order to promote it's thunderbolt/lightspeed connections. While that may or may not be true, AMD did have 3.0 connections an entire year before intel did.