P4S533- USB2?

[Col_Kiwi]

I am frustrated beyond belief. SiS's website says the chipset in my board, a P4S533 (SiS645DX) uses the SiS961B southbridge which has USB1.1 only. ASUS's website claims use of the SiS962 southbridge. Every review says something different.

Does the P4S533 have USB2.0 or not?

-Col.Kiwi

 

[lhgpoobaa]

Open up the case. Look at the southbridge chip. It should have writing on it. There will lie your answer.

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[Col_Kiwi]

*looks through window in case*

SiS961. That means USB1.1 only?

-Col.Kiwi

 

[Black_Cat]

P4S533: USB 1.1 :frown:
P4S533-E: USB 2.0

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[lhgpoobaa]

USB 1.1 yep.
It aint that bad, so long as u dont want to use any high bandwidth devices like external hard drives.

if you really need it, you can pick up a PCI USB2.0 hub.

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[Crashman]

You can get a USB 2.0 card cheap, I've even seen USB 2.0 / Firewire combo cards for around $30.

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[Col_Kiwi]

Okay. I was a bit disappointed when I realized it was USB1.1... then I realized it doesn't matter.

I only have a USB mouse, a USB game controller from SideWinder (some weird strategy game thing) and a printer. Low bandwidth devices.

I've never seen anything besides external HDDs that use USB2.. and I can't afford those and don't need em


Any advantages I don't know of?

-Col.Kiwi

 

[Crashman]

Well, there's always external CD writers, USB1.1 is limitted to around 4x writes.

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