11-09-2021 08:59 PM - last edited on 03-06-2024 10:36 PM by ROGBot
11-10-2021 11:12 PM
tocguy wrote:
So the ROG Hero Z690 is an interesting mobo. As I read thru its manual I see it has the subject USB header for connection to a front panel connector. Has anyone found a source for obtaining such module? The manual states "The USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C® module is purchased separately." and AFAICT Asus doesn't supply it. The usual parts locations Newark, Newegg, Digikey, Amazon(barf), don't explicitly cover it either. Is this thing so new that it is still vaporware? I'm aware of the fun the USB group had with shuffling the USB 3.0/3.1/3.2 deck so that it became challenging to understand their naming shenanigans but in time this too will pass. But, we're here in the present and I'm trying to figure out how to connect this USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C connector to an appropriate front panel Type-C connector. This USB3.2 Gen2x2 is the only one that'll support 20Gbs.
Oh, and neither the manual nor the mobo page define whether this mobo connector is an A-key or a B-key orientation so hopefully Asus can address that omission here for everyone's benefit.
Wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0#USB_3.2
01-22-2022 03:51 AM
Falkentyne wrote:
Most decent cases made within the last several years has this connector on the front panel and come with the connector. If you don't have a type C port on your case you must have a very old case. Obviously only the very newest cases will have a "Gen 2x2" version of this connector.
If it's Gen 2x2, it will be used natively.
If it's a Gen 2 (original type C front connector), it will fall back into Gen 2 mode.
01-22-2022 05:52 PM
Kin Hell wrote:
Not a Flame....
Most decent cases? - Some of us are obviously Worlds apart....
I guess in your words, that makes me a dinosaur with a Tenjim TJ11 & no upgrade option available from them.
It would be nice if Asus supplied the front panel module to accompany their £940 Maximus Z690 Extreme. - I remember them doing that with my Asus P8Z77-V Premium 4 Way SLI mobo & right now, can't even run my 2 x 1080 Ti's in SLI on this state of the art Dual-VGA capable board.
Makes it a Proper disgrace when Asus don't actually make the module their defacto manual print statement suggests, let alone a Bios that allows SLI & NVLink to function as suggested. - Whatever happened to trading standards??
02-03-2022 09:58 AM
11-11-2021 07:33 PM
02-03-2022 11:29 AM