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    MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition AMD motherboard first with USB 3.1

    Offers two USB 3.1 ports with up to double the speed of USB 3.0 standard ports.
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    Re: Reviews - MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition AMD motherboard first with USB 3.1

    Releasing a motherboard now, with USB3.1 but no PCI-Express 3.0?

    Hmmm
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    Re: Reviews - MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition AMD motherboard first with USB 3.1

    Nothing MSI can do about that though

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    Re: Reviews - MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition AMD motherboard first with USB 3.1

    Quote Originally Posted by Biscuit View Post
    Nothing MSI can do about that though
    They could add a PCI-E controller chip.
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    Re: Reviews - MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition AMD motherboard first with USB 3.1

    Quote Originally Posted by shaithis View Post
    They could add a PCI-E controller chip.
    Which pushes up the cost and there is probably not a huge market for expensive AMD chipset motherboards.

    More strangely are MSI not aware of Qualcomm's usage of "Krait", are they living in a bubble?

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    Re: Reviews - MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition AMD motherboard first with USB 3.1

    Quote Originally Posted by shaithis View Post
    They could add a PCI-E controller chip.
    Surely that would still have to connect via the north bridge which would be the bottleneck anyway? Or could they tap straight into the HyperTransport?

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    Re: Reviews - MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition AMD motherboard first with USB 3.1

    Quote Originally Posted by shaithis View Post
    They could add a PCI-E controller chip.
    No point; 16bit HT3.0 tops out at 10.4GB/s @ 2.6GHz, a single PCIe 2.0 x16 can do 8GB/s, so you'd gain very little from having a PCIe 3.0 slot: at best you'll get some slightly faster inter-GPU communication, but then we all know that being limited to PCIe 2.0 is not going to significantly impact your in-game performance with a decent CPU and GPU.

    OTOH, yes, AMD desperately need to do something about their "enthusiast" platform...

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    Re: Reviews - MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition AMD motherboard first with USB 3.1

    LOL at the "Type R" USB 3.1 marketing.

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    Re: Reviews - MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition AMD motherboard first with USB 3.1

    Quote Originally Posted by sykobee View Post
    LOL at the "Type R" USB 3.1 marketing.
    I *think* that says "Type A" - as oppose to the reversible Type-C, presumably...?

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    Re: MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition AMD motherboard first with USB 3.1

    Quote Originally Posted by shaithis View Post
    Releasing a motherboard now, with USB 3.1 but no PCI-Express 3.0?

    Hmmm
    Maybe in the next desktop socket, but for now it's pointless. Only the Asus Sabertooth, at a hilarious premium, supports it, and what with GPUs all supporting PCI-E 2 why bother?

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    Re: MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition AMD motherboard first with USB 3.1

    Quote Originally Posted by sykobee View Post
    LOL at the "Type R" USB 3.1 marketing.
    Type A. As in, it's the standard USB shape, not the reversible Type C not recently announced, or the Type B which is the type you see on most printers which is square with the top 2 corners rounded off.

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    Re: MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition AMD motherboard first with USB 3.1

    Quote Originally Posted by shaithis View Post
    Releasing a motherboard now, with USB3.1 but no PCI-Express 3.0?

    Hmmm
    We're not saturating 2.0 yet so don't worry about it. Don't know if titan x and 390x will but you'll probably be buying a nicer Mobo then this.

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