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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: harma on January 21, 2016, 12:53:04 pm

Title: Z68X-UD5-B3 with F10 bios - USB3 ports run at USB2 speed
Post by: harma on January 21, 2016, 12:53:04 pm
Hi,

I recently bought a T1 1TB USB 3 SSD disk from Samsung. It works nice and fast on my laptop's USB 3 ports but on my desktop with a Z68X-UD5-B3 motherboard I can't get the USB 3 ports to run at USB 3 speed. Current speed is around 30Mb which is way too low. I tried all sorts of bios settings (F10 is the latest bios) but it doesn't make a difference. I'm running Windows 10 64bits which has a build in driver for USB3. Are there any other things I could try?

I'm considering buying an USB 3 PCIe card. Any experience with that? Does that increase USB3 performance?

Thanks!
Title: Re: Z68X-UD5-B3 with F10 bios - USB3 ports run at USB2 speed
Post by: dmdilks on January 21, 2016, 05:44:21 pm
Did you up date the chipset driver? http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3848#dl

If the Laptop running windows 10 too?
Title: Re: Z68X-UD5-B3 with F10 bios - USB3 ports run at USB2 speed
Post by: harma on January 21, 2016, 07:39:08 pm
Quote from: dmdilks on January 21, 2016, 05:44:21 pm
Did you up date the chipset driver? http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3848#dl

If the Laptop running windows 10 too?

There's no driver for Windows 10 64 bits on the Gigabyte website. I've installed the Windows 7 64 bits driver but it didn't improve the performance.
The laptop is running Windows 10 as well and it uses the standard driver. Performance is between 250 and 500Mb which is what's expected.

I'm going to try a PCIe USB 3 card to see if this improves performance.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Z68X-UD5-B3 with F10 bios - USB3 ports run at USB2 speed
Post by: dmdilks on January 22, 2016, 01:30:43 am
yes there is one for that board Intel INF installation & Intel Management Engine Interface.

This is from they page for windows 10 64 bit page:

Chipset                                        Version              Size       Date                     Download Here
Intel Management Engine Interface  11.0.0.1158 / 21.02 MB - 2015/09/17 Asia China America Europe Europe(Russia) : FTP / Http
Intel INF installation 10.1.1.8 / 2.67 MB - 2015/07/07   Asia China America Europe Europe(Russia) : FTP / Http
Title: Re: Z68X-UD5-B3 with F10 bios - USB3 ports run at USB2 speed
Post by: harma on January 22, 2016, 05:57:42 am
I've already installed these but that's not the USB3 driver.

Quote from: dmdilks on January 22, 2016, 01:30:43 am
yes there is one for that board Intel INF installation & Intel Management Engine Interface.

This is from they page for windows 10 64 bit page:

Chipset                                        Version              Size       Date                     Download Here
Intel Management Engine Interface  11.0.0.1158 / 21.02 MB - 2015/09/17 Asia China America Europe Europe(Russia) : FTP / Http
Intel INF installation 10.1.1.8 / 2.67 MB - 2015/07/07   Asia China America Europe Europe(Russia) : FTP / Http
Title: Re: Z68X-UD5-B3 with F10 bios - USB3 ports run at USB2 speed
Post by: dmdilks on January 22, 2016, 11:57:48 am
I don't know which company made your USB 3 drivers but I would check there. Understand you are dealing with a board that might not have windows 10 support. Yes it will run on it but it might have limited driver support.

You are dealing with widows 10. A OS that I run in a test mode and that is it. Till they officially tell me it is not in the beta  mode any more. Then I might run it. 
Title: Re: Z68X-UD5-B3 with F10 bios - USB3 ports run at USB2 speed
Post by: harma on January 22, 2016, 12:15:12 pm
I use the same drive with an Asus Zenbook which has USB3 running on Windows 10 with their native driver which has great performance between 300-450Mb. I doubt it's Windows 10 to blame here as its running much better then Windows 7 IMO.
I've ordered a PCIe USB3 card and hope that this improves the performance. I've read that there are more people having issues with the USB3 performance of this board. As I don't want to change the complete board for now I'm going for the cheaper solution and hope it works.

Cheers!

Quote from: dmdilks on January 22, 2016, 11:57:48 am
I don't know which company made your USB 3 drivers but I would check there. Understand you are dealing with a board that might not have windows 10 support. Yes it will run on it but it might have limited driver support.

You are dealing with widows 10. A OS that I run in a test mode and that is it. Till they officially tell me it is not in the beta  mode any more. Then I might run it.