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ASUS Announces USB 3.1 Motherboards and PCI Adapters

ASUS today announced its lineup of SuperSpeed+USB 3.1 solutions, includingmotherboards with built-in USB 3.1 andtwo ASUS USB 3.1 Cards. The latter are thenew PCI Express® (PCIe®) expansion card with either dual Type-A sockets or reversible Type-C. The motherboards with built-in USB 3.1 as well as the USB 3.1 cards deliver next-generation 10Gbit/s data-transfer speeds that are up to twice (2X) as fast as USB 3.0. All USB 3.1 Type-A models are fully backwardly compatible with previous USB standards.

In a press release, Asus claimed that the new solutions benefit from exclusive ASUS USB 3.1 Boost technology to push real-world data-transfer speeds faster than ever before, with testing by ASUS engineers achieving sequential read/write speeds of up to 854.6/863.9MB/s.

TwelveASUS motherboards have dual Type-A USB 3.1 ports built in for instant 10Gbit/sconnectivity. Products with two USB 3.1 sockets onboard are signified with a ‘/USB 3.1’ suffix and include X99-Pro/USB 3.1, X99-A/USB 3.1 (Transfer Express), X99-A/USB 3.1, X99-E WS/USB 3.1, Z97-Deluxe/USB 3.1, Z97-Pro (Wi-Fi ac)/USB 3.1, Z97-A/USB 3.1, Z97-E/USB 3.1,Z97-K/USB3.1, Sabertooth Z97 Mark 1/USB 3.1, Sabertooth Z97 Mark 2/USB 3.1, B85M-G Plus/USB 3.1 and B85-Plus/USB 3.1.

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