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.

Hello all.<BR>First post -I did use the 'Find' option but didn't see an answer.<BR><BR>I am installing a card reader on the front of my PC and it needs to connect to the headers of the motherboard.

If you're upgrading or building your own PC, you'll probably find some components inside that are similar in size and shape to USB ports. But those are actually USB headers, and even though they look ...

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 ...

We are in an odd time right now for USB technology. Whether we like it or not, USB 2.0 still rules the roost. Motherboard manufactures started adding USB 3.0 capability to motherboards two years ago, ...

If you’ve ever opened a PC case and stared inside, or looked at a bare motherboard, you may be taken aback by the number and variety of connectors, pins, and slots that exist on a modern PC ...

A couple of weeks ago we saw and tested a preview of USB 3.1 courtesy of MSI. USB 3.1 increases the maximum data transfer rate from the current 5Gb/sec to 10Gb/sec (1,250MB/sec), though of course ...