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• gobaers - Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - link

  What about ps/2 ports for n-key keyboards? It's a must for me.

• IanCutress - Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - link

  Good point: most motherboards in this price segment will cater for PS/2, either as a combo or as individual ports. When you start looking at price points above this, non-gaming boards might do away with them.

• Taft12 - Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - link

  Just look at the pics dude - each board here has a PS2 port (thank goodness)

• DanNeely - Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - link

  "- Gaming USB Port: Some gaming mice allow communication faster than 125 Hz that a USB port normally assigns to a mouse. The kicker is that the driver in the OS has to allow >125 Hz to make this feature of a gaming mouse useable, so some motherboards come with appropriate hardware and drivers to make this possible."
  
  This is the first I've heard of this. Have greater than 125hz USB ports been a non-advertised feature for most of the last decade; or have mice vendors been selling 500/1000Hz snakeoil the most of that time period?

• Doroga - Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - link

  Can you include some test of USB power delivery for DAC.
  
  I recently found out with my Fiio E10 that it has higher noise floor than some realteks when connected to old PC's USB ports.
  It's all smooth with notebook.

• Doroga - Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - link

  Not sure, but there is a chance with some MB designs it will depend a lot on PSU quality.
  That old PC has some old cheap FSP inside.

• Kompost - Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - link

  USB power delivery shouldn't be affected by PSU quality, all motherboards have local regulation there. Otherwise shorting out USB pins would result in much more smoke and misery.
  
  If you want to get the lowest noise floor on USB DAC use properly shielded cable with ferrite beads, it's also good to plug it straight into motherboard, don't use extension cables or hubs.

• madmilk - Friday, November 29, 2013 - link

  That seems expensive. I bet 99% of motherboards just connect USB to the +5V line, perhaps with a resettable fuse in between.

• Laphaswiff - Monday, December 9, 2013 - link

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• garbage123 - Friday, November 20, 2015 - link

  This is garbage. The RAM should be spread out across all the slots. Not just in one section.