Why do motherboard manufacturers still put USB2...

Why do motherboard manufacturers still put USB2.0 on their devices even with the latest and greatest and high end motherboards?

Hahahaha NIGGER

drivers?

Reported for racism.

What do you mean?

Penny pinching, basically.

AFAIK some mobos do not have usb 3 support until you install the drivers

>Why do motherboard manufacturers still put USB2.0 on their devices
They don't?

Drivers.
[probably]XHCI licensing more expensive than EHCI[/probably]

this

good to have 2.0 there so you can atleast thumb drive the network drivers onto the thing.

Some things don't work with usb3.
Don't know why.
Proprietary drivers are a bitch

That's odd. USB3.0 should work out of the box without drivers, it's literally 5 years old.

USB2.0 is garbage capped at 30MB/sec and I'm tired of modern mobos having literally 4 USB2.0's in the back.

the reason is windows. usb 3.0 does not work until you install the drivers (they install automatically in w10)

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>USB3.0 should work out of the box without drivers
Everything needs drivers bro, it's just whether your OS comes with drivers to handle it.

I was able to boot and install W10 from a USB3 flash drive so the W10 installer must have had supported drivers for my USB3 with it without having to download them.
This isn't always the case, especially if you use an older OS like W7.

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>This isn't always the case, especially if you use an older OS like W7.
You can always include any drivers in w7 iso.

>it's literally 5 years old.
>literally 4 USB2.0's in the back.

Literally the worst thing I've read all morning.

Older parts are cheaper.
Not every device needs 5gbps.

Look for a USB 3.0 only mobo and try to install an OS on it. You'll see why.

Because 3.0 ports can be iffy at times.

because installing windows 7 on that device becomes a fucking nightmare

Because USB 1.0 plugs are out of stock (or else they would still use those)

How many usb ports do you need?
There are usually 6-9 usb ports and 2-4 of those are usb2 and the rest is usb3.1
USB3 doesn't always work for "old" devices and usb2 doesn't always work for "new" devices.
But how many ports do you actually need?
And if you need a ton of devices, wouldn't you use extenders anyway?

USB 2.0 is less iffy at the BIOS/UEFI for input devices like mice and keyboards
it's less iffy on older OSes like Windows 7/8 for support at the time the installer is launched from untouched boot media (E.g. driver packages not added to the install media boot image specifically)
it's cheaper to put in 2.0 ports than 3.0

and finally, some devices just don't work right in 3.0 ports, as stated already

they use literally the same physical connector, though

That is true, but it does require you to add them beforehand.

Usb 3.0 goes through different hardware and drivers and that is a problem for things like flashing your phone or other programing work where a usb connection without a middleman is requied.

Not actually true. The connector is backwards compatible but it's not the same. USB 3 has more conductors than USB 2.

Nothing the average gamerfag buys has USB ports needed for anything other than their RGB mouse and keyboard, what do you put into your USB port?