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USB 2.0: on board or PCI?

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8bit

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Building a new P4 system and plan to get a USB 2.0 external hard drive for backup and portability. Should I go for a mobo with on board USB 2.0 or get a PCI adapter with any mobo? How is it different performance and compatibility wise? Thanks.
 


<< Building a new P4 system and plan to get a USB 2.0 external hard drive for backup and portability. Should I go for a mobo with on board USB 2.0 or get a PCI adapter with any mobo? How is it different performance and compatibility wise? Thanks. >>


It would probably be cheaper to go ahead and get a motherboard with USB 2.0 onboard. Besides, you'd also save a PCI slot. Performance/compatibility will be the same either way.
 
I've got the MSI 845 board with USB 2.0 and it still takes up a PCI slot cuz the USB is on an additional chip. So you get the 2 up top by the PS2 ports which are normal USB and then 4 down below in a PCI slot. You could stickem down at the bottom and then they'll cover up the CNR slot which you probably won't use anyway.
 
Thanks for replies. I'm sort of leaning towards RDRAM, and seems that there's no 850 mobo with built in USB 2.0 (I could be mistaken here).

Chaotix,
You mean it uses up a slot but not plugged into the PCI slot itself right?! A bit like daughther boards I assume? Also the MSI you're using, is it the ARU model? How's that working out for you, stability/compatibility?
 
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