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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by phantom glass visit store dot phantom glass for the best darn screen protectors out there as well as hyperx alright guys welcome to our first video at CES we're at the msi sweet checking out their first motherboard of the day which is the z97 gaming 6 this motherboard features the world's first type C USB 3.1 connector and while it's still a prototype you might be able to see it sometime around March also time time around March they're trying to work with case manufacturers to get front panel headers you might be able to see USB type-c connectors on the front of your case as well which is quite cool as I said it's a prototype so it doesn't actually feature everything thus far so you won't be able to get like the power 2 point 0 standard of 100 watts but you will be able to get that awesome data transfer speed that comes with USB 3.1 now this was my first time trying out USB type-c my first observation was that I didn't plug it in enough it's actually quite a tough connector to fully plug-in but it locks very nicely which is really good to see in this type of connector we know with micro USB and stuff like that that durability can kind of be a big issue but USB type-c supports theoretically up to 10,000 ish unplug zandri plugs which is really good the next board on our hit list is the x 99 a gaming 9 ack and what this board features is dual USB 3.1 plugs on the back of the motherboard now again like with the previous board this is just kind of supporting the 3.1 data speed standard not like the power to point a 100 watt standard but that's fine is pretty much no devices will support that right now anyways speaking of device support this is compatible with USB 3.0 devices unlike type C where you can't plug that connector in because it's not the same thing although the end on the other side might work this one is compatible with both but you won't be able to get that speed advantage unless you have a device which is also USB 3.1 on the other side now they did have an example here of a device that is kind of under a box doing USB 3.1 transfer speeds we see when it's on USB 3.1 we get about 700 in something on the crystal dis marked bench that they're running and about 400 and something with are running on three point 0 a very nice speed increase this board will probably be released sometime around q one most likely it's less of a prototype board than the type-c board we were looking at earlier and while I know some of you are going to jump in the comments go Oh a thunderbolt already has 20 gigabit per second coming out soon that's true but not as many devices are supporting it and it's often more expensive so with USB we are going to probably see a faster iteration of products and more acceptance amongst the market so you're probably going to see us be around more often also one thing to note with be like not supporting power and stuff like that is if you're jumping really early on these boards there's going to be not that many devices that support it anyways and having two plugs also isn't really that big of a deal because again not that many devices are actually going to support it and we've already seen that while you might have a ton of USB 3.1 plugs on the back your board you're mainly using a USB to point out devices to plug into them already although that might change in the future that's still a thing so I don't think it's super important as of right now alright guys thank you for watching our first video at CES at the MSI sweet if you want to see all the rest of our CES videos be sure to sit a subscribed to Linus tech tips also thank you to phantom glass for sending us here this year will hopefully be releasing a cool little video of theirs fairly soon where I don't know I can't spoil it but make sure you stay tuned because it'll be fairly interesting also Kingston's hyperx YouTube channel is pretty cool you should check it out they've been growing a lot lately because they're releasing some pretty interesting content so be sure to check that out as well and i'll see you guys in the next CES video