I think my motherboard is preventing a USB video capture device from working properly.

srylain

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Jul 28, 2016
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My motherboard is an H87M Pro4, and the capture device I just got is a GV-USB2 (https://www.amazon.com/DATA-connection-video-capture-GV-USB2/dp/B00428BF1Y). I'm only trying to capture video from it at 30FPS, but it only hovers around 20-23. After thinking it was the device, I went and tried it in my roommates' computers and it worked just fine while capturing at a constant 30FPS (their computers are much weaker than mine, I have an i5 4570 and a GTX 980).

This leads me to believe that either the motherboard is causing problems, or there's some sort of problems coming from the USB ports it has (I've tried all 8 of the ports, two are 2.0 and the other 6 are 3.0). My question is, if upgrading my motherboard or getting a USB expansion card would fix this.

I've never dealt with USB problems like this, so I've no idea why it's happening nor do I know if replacing anything will work. If I didn't like the GV-USB2 so much (great quality, low display lag that lets me play on my PC monitor) I'd use something else, but I'd really like to use it.
 
It does have Windows 10 drivers. Is there just any possibility that upgrading my motherboard or getting an expansion USB card would help? I'd heard that my USB bus could be over-saturated, not really sure how as all I have plugged in are my mouse, keyboard and Astro MixAmp and even without all those plugged in (just the mouse still being plugged in) it still gives me the same problems. It's really the only thing I haven't tried yet, and I was possibly looking into upgrading motherboard/CPU anyways.