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<blockquote data-quote="Lasherž" data-source="post: 8726986" data-attributes="member: 679555">I believe that&#039;s not true, the USB controller hosts all of the USB devices on a board unless otherwise stated and will pretty much always reside in the chipset driver or just let the windows drivers dictate it, that will apply to the front and the back equally since it interfaces as part of the south bridge, in other words, not very fast. Thunderbolt is the exception to this and those do usually require a driver for the interface chip (Asmedia is a common one). That&#039;s because it uses PCI-E lanes (up to 4) to get very fast interface speeds to the CPU that you wouldn&#039;t get on the south bridge.That&#039;s all true with the only exception being that for motherboard onboard devices should all be from the motherboard partner site. Technically it&#039;s true that realtek makes your onboard sound card or that intel makes the chipset (except amd in this case), but the partner drivers (aka ASUS, Gigabyte, etc) will generally give you less problems and more features unless there&#039;s something screwing with your setup like compatibility that&#039;s not resolved any other way than to go direct to the more up to date generic drivers.Video cards are much more standardized than motherboards and you can go direct to AMD or Nvidia.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lasherž, post: 8726986, member: 679555"] I believe that's not true, the USB controller hosts all of the USB devices on a board unless otherwise stated and will pretty much always reside in the chipset driver or just let the windows drivers dictate it, that will apply to the front and the back equally since it interfaces as part of the south bridge, in other words, not very fast. Thunderbolt is the exception to this and those do usually require a driver for the interface chip (Asmedia is a common one). That's because it uses PCI-E lanes (up to 4) to get very fast interface speeds to the CPU that you wouldn't get on the south bridge. That's all true with the only exception being that for motherboard onboard devices should all be from the motherboard partner site. Technically it's true that realtek makes your onboard sound card or that intel makes the chipset (except amd in this case), but the partner drivers (aka ASUS, Gigabyte, etc) will generally give you less problems and more features unless there's something screwing with your setup like compatibility that's not resolved any other way than to go direct to the more up to date generic drivers. Video cards are much more standardized than motherboards and you can go direct to AMD or Nvidia. [/QUOTE]

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