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as well as hyperx all right guys Welcome to our first video at CES we're at the
MSI Suite checking out their first motherboard of the day which is the z97
gaming 6 this motherboard features the world's first type-c USB 3.1 connector
and while it's still a prototype you might be able to see it sometime around
March also sometime around March they're trying to work with case manufacturers
to get front panel headers so you might be able to see USB type-c connectors on
the front of your case as well which is quite cool as I said it's a prototype so
it doesn't actually feature everything thus far so you won't be able to get
like the power 2.0 standard of 100 Watts but you will be able to get that awesome
data transfer speed that comes with USB 3.1 now this was my first time trying
out USB type-c my first observation was that I didn't plug it in enough it's
actually quite a tough connector to fully plug in but it locks very nicely
which is really good to see in this type of connector we know with micro USB and
stuff like that that uh durability can kind of be a big issue but USB type-c
supports theoretically up to 10,000 is unplugs and replug which is really good
the next board on our Hit List is the x99a gaming 9 AK and what this board
features is dual USB 3.1 plugs on the
back of the motherboard now again like with the previous board this is just
kind of supporting the 3.1 data speed standard not uh like the power 2.0 100
watt standard but that's fine is pretty much no devices will support that right
now anyways speaking of device support this is compatible with USB 3.0 devices
unlike type c where you can't plug that connector in because it's not the same
thing although the end on the other side might work this one is compatible with
both but you won't be able to get that speed Advantage unless you have a device
which is also USB 3.1 on the other side
now they did have an example here of a device that is kind of under a box doing
USB 3.1 transfer speeds we see when it's
on USB 3.1 we get about 700 and something on the crystal disc mark bench
that they're running and about 400 and something when they're running on 3.0 a
very nice speed increase this board will probably be released sometime around q1
most likely it's less of a prototype board than the type-c board we were
looking at earlier and while I know some of you are going to jump in the comments
go oh Thunderbolt already has 20 gigb per second coming out soon that's true
but not as many devices are supporting it and it's often more expensive so with
USB we are going to probably see a faster iteration of products and more
acceptance amongst the market so you're probably going to see USB around more
often also one thing to note with the like not supporting power and stuff like
that is if you're jumping really early on these boards there's going to be not
that many devices that support it anyways and having two plugs also isn't
really that big of a deal because again not that many devices are actually going
to support it and we've already seen that while you might have a ton of USB
3.0 plugs on the back of your board you're mainly using USB 2.0 devices to
plug into them already although that might change in the future that's still
a thing so I don't think it's super important as of right now all right guys
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well and I'll see you guys in the next CES video