1155 mATX board with a USB 3.0 front panel i/o header?

[Gigantopithecus]

Cheapest one I could find on Newegg is an ASUS that's almost $200, and that's out of budget. There are ITX boards with USB 3.0 front panel headers but I can't find a reasonably-priced mATX board with this feature. Any tips? Chipset doesn't matter.

 

[Kenmitch]

Here's one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157235&Tpk=Asrock%20H67M-GE%2fHT

 

[Meaker10]

Ah asrock, always providing decent features at a good price, they may not OC the best but they do usually just work.

 

[MontyAC]

You can't overclock with that board, H67, anyways.

 

[Zivic]

Cheapest one I could find on Newegg is an ASUS that's almost $200, and that's out of budget. There are ITX boards with USB 3.0 front panel headers but I can't find a reasonably-priced mATX board with this feature. Any tips? Chipset doesn't matter.

I have used the Gigabyte GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3... decent board, not cheap, but not expensive (139.99 AR)

 

[Gigantopithecus]

Did some research on both the ASRock and Gigabyte boards mentioned and they seem to use the same Etron USB 3.0 controller that is buggy. 🙁

Any other 1155 boards use an NEC front panel USB 3.0 chip?

I'd rather not switch over to an AMD A8-3870K over something so trivial as USB 3.0 front ports, but for my usage patterns on the daily driver...

 

[VirtualLarry]

I have an ASrock 990FX Extreme4 with the Etron USB3.0 chip, and so far, when I first plugged in my Microcenter 32GB USB3.0 flash drive, my entire computer froze up.

But then after rebooting, I didn't have the same issue. It was detected fine.

My 1TB Toshiba portable external USB3.0 drive was also detected just fine.

So I'm chalking it up to a fluke and/or static discharge so far.

 

[abekl]

My z68-UD4 by Gigabyte also uses the Etron chip, and my usb3.0 performance has been stable and fast.

 

[dawp]

you could get a card like this and use any board you want as long as you have an available pcie slot.