H97 upgrade bummer!@#$

[rockfella79]

I upgraded to Core i5 4440 yesterday along with this board:

GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket 1150 - GA-H97M-DS3P (rev. 1.0)

I had this board previously:

GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket AM3+ - GA-78LMT-USB3 (rev. 4.1)

This board needed a driver for USB3 ports to work (i am assuming it had an external USB3 controller instead of something on the main chipset) I used to get around 50-90 MBps (have seen 150 MBps spikes!) transfer speeds on USB3 on it and a 9 meter USB3 cable (! yes 9 meter) worked flawlessly on it for Fiio E10:

Amazon.com: FiiO E10 USB DAC Headphone Amplifier: Electronics

to amp this:

Audio-Technica's ATH-M50 | Professional Studio Monitor Headphones || Audio-Technica US

After the upgrade I am no longer able to use that long cable and i get slower speeds on USB3. It looks like it is capped @ 49 MBps. I was expecting better performance as this chipset is new and USB3 is on the "Chipset" instead of an external controller.

Any inputs will help...

 

[krose]

What OS? do you have the Intel chipset and USB3 drivers installed?
USB3 driver

chipset driver

 

[rockfella79]

What OS? do you have the Intel chipset and USB3 drivers installed?
USB3 driver

chipset driver

Yup. Microsoft has has inbuilt USB3 drivers for windows 8 and newer. Already installed latest "INF" drivers. As of now I connected cable to a PCI USB card and its working. The problem is solved but I wonder how come it worked without issues on old gen AMD 760G chipset board and gave problems on a newer H97 chipset.

 

[vailr]

There's more than likely 2 different USB 3.0 controller chips included with the motherboard. Some USB 3.0 ports use the Intel controller, while others use a 3rd party controller, such as VIA, Atheros, Renesas/NEC, etc.
Example: my Gigabyte Z87-UD5H board identifies (in Device Manager) the VIA USB 3.0 controllers as 2x "Generic SuperSpeed USB Hub".
There's no obvious way to tell which is Intel and which is 3rd party.
So: you may get better speeds using one of the other USB 3.0 ports.

 

[rockfella79]

It was Etron on my old board and probably Intel on this as it an Intel H97. Luckily the E10 is working on the long 9 meters cable using something like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...1533-_-Product

There's more than likely 2 different USB 3.0 controller chips included with the motherboard. Some USB 3.0 ports use the Intel controller, while others use a 3rd party controller, such as VIA, Atheros, Renesas/NEC, etc.
Example: my Gigabyte Z87-UD5H board identifies (in Device Manager) the VIA USB 3.0 controllers as 2x "Generic SuperSpeed USB Hub".
There's no obvious way to tell which is Intel and which is 3rd party.
So: you may get better speeds using one of the other USB 3.0 ports.