Intel Motherboards : No USB3 on Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITX/ac

Author: Montoya
Subject: No USB3 on Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITX/ac
Posted: 03 May 2017 at 3:30am

Please check if "Usbtreeview" reports your USB drive connected to a Superspeed USB port.
UsbTreeView can show a 'H' in the icon of the high-speed ports and an 'S' for the SuperSpeed ports.

I have tested a 16GB USB flashdrive on both USB controllers (Asmedia & Intel) and no difference in speed detected in the benchmarks between USB controllers :

Asmedia controller:
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2.1 x64 (UWP) (C) 2007-2017 hiyohiyo
                           Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

   Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) :   113.625 MB/s
  Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) :    13.554 MB/s
  Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) :     6.364 MB/s [  1553.7 IOPS]
 Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) :     2.209 MB/s [   539.3 IOPS]
         Sequential Read (T= 1) :   121.636 MB/s
        Sequential Write (T= 1) :    13.421 MB/s
   Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :     6.208 MB/s [  1515.6 IOPS]
  Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :     2.077 MB/s [   507.1 IOPS]

  Test : 1024 MiB [D: 3.2% (0.5/14.5 GiB)] (x5)  [Interval=5 sec]
  Date : 2017/05/02 20:42:07
    OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 15063] (x64)

Intel controller :
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2.1 x64 (UWP) (C) 2007-2017 hiyohiyo
                           Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

   Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) :   113.431 MB/s
  Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) :    13.554 MB/s
  Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) :     6.118 MB/s [  1493.7 IOPS]
 Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) :     2.199 MB/s [   536.9 IOPS]
         Sequential Read (T= 1) :   119.942 MB/s
        Sequential Write (T= 1) :    14.261 MB/s
   Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :     5.860 MB/s [  1430.7 IOPS]
  Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :     2.085 MB/s [   509.0 IOPS]

  Test : 1024 MiB [D: 3.2% (0.5/14.5 GiB)] (x5)  [Interval=5 sec]
  Date : 2017/05/02 21:02:09
    OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 15063] (x64)
 
So let me know the results you get, with the tools from Uwe Sieber.


Edited by Montoya - 35 minutes ago at 3:34am