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as well as hyperx all right guys Welcome to our first video at CES we're at the

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MSI Suite checking out their first motherboard of the day which is the z97

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gaming 6 this motherboard features the world's first type-c USB 3.1 connector

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and while it's still a prototype you might be able to see it sometime around

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March also sometime around March they're trying to work with case manufacturers

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to get front panel headers so you might be able to see USB type-c connectors on

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the front of your case as well which is quite cool as I said it's a prototype so

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it doesn't actually feature everything thus far so you won't be able to get

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like the power 2.0 standard of 100 Watts but you will be able to get that awesome

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data transfer speed that comes with USB 3.1 now this was my first time trying

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out USB type-c my first observation was that I didn't plug it in enough it's

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actually quite a tough connector to fully plug in but it locks very nicely

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which is really good to see in this type of connector we know with micro USB and

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stuff like that that uh durability can kind of be a big issue but USB type-c

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supports theoretically up to 10,000 is unplugs and replug which is really good

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the next board on our Hit List is the x99a gaming 9 AK and what this board

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features is dual USB 3.1 plugs on the

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back of the motherboard now again like with the previous board this is just

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kind of supporting the 3.1 data speed standard not uh like the power 2.0 100

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watt standard but that's fine is pretty much no devices will support that right

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now anyways speaking of device support this is compatible with USB 3.0 devices

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unlike type c where you can't plug that connector in because it's not the same

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thing although the end on the other side might work this one is compatible with

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both but you won't be able to get that speed Advantage unless you have a device

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which is also USB 3.1 on the other side

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now they did have an example here of a device that is kind of under a box doing

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USB 3.1 transfer speeds we see when it's

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on USB 3.1 we get about 700 and something on the crystal disc mark bench

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that they're running and about 400 and something when they're running on 3.0 a

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very nice speed increase this board will probably be released sometime around q1

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most likely it's less of a prototype board than the type-c board we were

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looking at earlier and while I know some of you are going to jump in the comments

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go oh Thunderbolt already has 20 gigb per second coming out soon that's true

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but not as many devices are supporting it and it's often more expensive so with

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USB we are going to probably see a faster iteration of products and more

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acceptance amongst the market so you're probably going to see USB around more

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often also one thing to note with the like not supporting power and stuff like

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that is if you're jumping really early on these boards there's going to be not

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that many devices that support it anyways and having two plugs also isn't

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really that big of a deal because again not that many devices are actually going

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to support it and we've already seen that while you might have a ton of USB

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3.0 plugs on the back of your board you're mainly using USB 2.0 devices to

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plug into them already although that might change in the future that's still

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a thing so I don't think it's super important as of right now all right guys

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thank you for watching our first video at CES at the MSI Suite if you want to

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growing a lot lately because they're releasing some pretty interesting content so be sure to check that out as

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well and I'll see you guys in the next CES video