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Old 09-07-2016, 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by astro744 View Post
Your mainboard may only have a PCIe x1.0 slot which does not support the high transfer speeds of USB 3.1. This is likely the bottleneck limiting your speed and no change in driver will help. You've jumped two speed generations from 2.0 skipping 3.0 up to 3.1 which is twice as fast as 3.0.

I'll be looking at a 3.1 equiped PC when next I'm upgrading and hopefully some more peripheral devices will follow suit soon.
I'll grab the motherboard manual and see if I can find out that info, - thanks for the reply.
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