With the prevalence of USB devices, it might be easy to mix up USB headers and ports, but there is a key difference between these two key USB components.

USB 1.1 and 2.0 appear to share the same pin header layout on my motherboard (Abit AT7 with both 1.1 and 2.0 headers). I'm assuming that the wires are able to carry the same signals as 2.0, so I think ...

Hello. I'm trying to set up a old P200 machine to run as a linux firewall and need help getting USB ports set up. The motherboard is an old Abit PX5 which uses the Intel 430TX chipset which has ...

This is brilliant. I’m not 100% sure what the practical application is yet, but I think I want one. ATP built an SLC NAND-based solid state drive designed to plug directly into the USB header on your ...

I’m a big proponent of DIY PC building and I tend to describe it as “relatively straightforward.” For the most part, everything just plugs in where it should. But there is one aspect of putting ...

If you're someone who connects many devices to your motherboard, the new X870 LiveMixer WiFi from ASRock, which retails for $229.99, might be precisely what you need. The AM5 motherboard features a ...

Ryanteck has unveiled a new USB Raspberry Pi compatible GPIO header board called the RTk.GPIO, which has been created to provide an easy way to add a Raspberry Pi GPIO headers to your desktop computer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the most commonly used data connections in the modern world is USB (which stands for Universal Serial Bus), but there's a ...