• Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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    7 months ago

    I don’t know, but I’d guess the buffered chipset controller has more stability during certain power state transitions.

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      7 months ago

      I think I’ve seen this hypothesis too and it makes sense to me.

      If I’m building a new AMD system today, I’d look for a board that exposes more of the chipset-provided USB ports. Otherwise I’d budget for a high quality 4-port PCIe USB controller, if I’m planning to rely a lot on USB on that system.