I dream of a day when all High End MoBo's will have all their USB Ports be "Fully Independent" root hubs that can each clock up to 8 kHz and scale down to any integer polling speeds that are integer multipliers of the base 125 µs Micro-Frame as needed.Chief Blur Buster wrote: ↑11 Mar 2021, 02:57I heard Razer is talking to some mobo vendors about that.Kamen Rider Blade wrote: ↑11 Mar 2021, 02:50Does anybody know how much it would cost the MoBo makers to have each USB port on the back of the Rear I/O panel be a independent root USB hub instead of the shared mess that it is now?
The time is ripe for decicated high-Hz USB ports, so we can plug in a 4 KHz keyboard and an 8 KHz mouse at the same time without them clogging each other in the hardware, and lower USB / chipset / CPU processing overheads as much as possible.
Ideally, software should be the only weak link for high-Hz devices.
That kind of flexibility is what we need from USB.
And the "One-Size" fits all mentality of USB Type-C has created a mess out of the USB eco-system.
Not every device needs the Largest Bandwidth Pipe to the PC. And the manufacturers of USB-C cables has created alot of "Bad Quality" cables that don't meet spec but are marketed as such.
There's a reason why clothing and many other products have a Large/Medium/Small sizes in their product lines.
Having everything in the USB world be only "Large" is a bad idea for logistics, and for resource usage (environmental).
USB Type-C is great for big Storage that needs to move alot of data over a fat High Bandwidth pipe.
But a simpler USB cabling like Micro-B, but reinvented using Type-C micro pin technology to handle 10 pins and 1x Full Duplex Super Speed lane should've been pushed as a "Medium" sized USB pipe.
And a simpler & small light weight, cheap to manufacture cable should've been made to turn USB 2.0 into 2.1 with a super tiny, cost efficient Full Duplex Cable that can handle 8 kHz.
Input devices don't need that much bandwidth, and it needs the cable to be light weight and simple.
USB Type-C cables aren't light weight, and are over-kill for Mice and other input devices.