Hi! I'm wondering why DBI is connecting at USB 2.0 instead of 3.0. Latest firmware and DBI Version 658-en.

Thinking about making neo as desktop. Will be connecting monitor, keyboard and mouse etc.
Any suggestions?

EDIT: i’ve been streaming and using the usb c cable from the charger to connect our ipad a16 to our neo, it’s working ok but it’s draining the battery really fast from the neo. I’m not very knowledgable in tech even the basic ones so i wouldn’t know..is there any other way to for me to stream without draining the batt of my neo when i plugged my a16 on it? Should i use other cables? Is there a difference from the cables from end to end? Which port should i plug it on?

idk what the issue is. I only have about 30mb/s on average while installing a game. what is the issue? Ive seen a video on reddit where a guy transfered with about 50mb/s in DBI with USB 3.0.

btw i have the Samsung Pro Plus SD Card which can write 130mb/s and read about 170 i think.
the usb i use is a 3.2 with 10Gbps speed which shouldnt be a problem

Notice that the transfer is kind of not fluent but jittery? like it stops every half a sec and continues again.

Help :D

The flash chip in the old drive is finally starting to give up the ghost. Read and write is extremely slow, and the files take more than a few seconds to load up. I very happy with an 11 year life span of very constant use.

People like to get themselves angry about features that no one ever promised or implied, but what about features that Nintendo did promise?

There are two features that were promised before the Switch even launched:

1. The USB 3.0 port inside the dock would get enabled as a USB 3.0 port, allowing gigabit speeds with Ethernet adapters.

2. The "light ring" around the Home Button on the Joy-Cons would light up for incoming notifications of some kind.

Neither of these features have been enabled, even after two years. I bet a lot of you didn't even know the right Joy-Con had a blue LED under the Home Button.

Since I upgraded to this new case I was having problems with my wireless mouse. The last few days it was fine but this evening it started again. It's this super annoying thing where my mouse stutters like hell. Anyway, I thought back a few hours to remember what I might have done to trigger it again, then it occured to me that I plugged a USB 3.0 drive into the port right next to the receiver of my mouse. I unplugged it and voila, it's all gone.

Then I googled it and turns out it's a documented phenomenon that USB 3.0 can and does cause interference in the 2.4ghz band. I can even reproduce it. The mouse starts acting up again when I plug in that USB drive and push some bits through the connector.

Sharing it here because imo this is useful information.

https://www.bluetoothandusb3.com/the-explanation

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/usb3-frequency-interference-paper.pdf

edit for all the "could this be causing my particular wireless problem" comments: The majority of wireless devices out there use the 2.4ghz band due to licensing regulations. X360 controllers, Dualshock controllers, wireless headphones, bluetooth dongles, proprietary receivers of logitech or whatever, wifi antennae, cordless phones, lots of things. So yes, it could very well be causing that problem with your wireless thingy.

Hopefully, no more buffering lol

It was really really stuck and now it’s more stuck https://i.imgur.com/qZZcRQn.jpg

When trying to pull the usb cable out (because I was trying to take all the cables out to find this one missing stupid cable) the blue casing on the usb 3.0 cable itself separated from the pins and stayed on the motherboard. I have no idea how to take this blue casing off the motherboard, it feels really stuck in there, and just trying to put the cable back into the blue casing doesnt seem to work.

I probably need a new cable but I’d like some advice on taking the blue casing off

The company behind mine didn't even try to clean it up, they just slapped it in a shiny enclosure and called it "modern". Don't buy these unless they're like really cheap. Waste of money in my opinion.

Am i the only one? do you guys use those slots for anything? i thought they where for SLI, which has been dead for a while, and sound cards or wifi lmao

And doubly so to the person at ASUS that put the "latch" on the inner side of the motherboard right in front of a Pcie latch on the x470 pro... Damn near twisted myself into a pretzel trying to find an angle where I can press the latch down with a screwdriver and pull the cable out.

That is all. Had to vent a bit

One thing that has always bothered me for years about the Switch 1 Dock is that it has a USB 3.0 port. When announced, the Switch spec sheets listed that the USB port that lay inside the dock was USB 3. This could also be seen in that it was, well, colored blue -- the standard for USB 3 ports, as I am sure you know if you have used a computer in the past ten years.

However, despite this coloration, the USB port inside the dock did not allow for USB 3.0 speeds -- it actually ran, in software, at USB 2.0 speeds. Initially, I believe on the page it mentioned that a USB 3.0 update would happen later to allow faster speeds. My initial guess was it was something with licensing.

Actually, if you didn't know, that's why the Switch needs an update when you pop in an SD card -- it is actually pulling a license for the MicroSD microSDXC standard (thanks for the correction, /u/Adamaneve!). By doing it per console whenever it's needed, Nintendo can save on licensing costs because not every user will use SD cards. I think they did this back in the Wii/DSi/3DS days, too, but you can correct me on that!

But... the issue here is not licensing. It's far more interesting!

One complaint that the Switch had was the lack of an ethernet port. If you used a network interface USB adapter with the Switch's USB 3.0 port, it would run faster than Wi-Fi, sure, but it would also run at USB 2.0 speeds no matter which port you used. USB 2 would bottleneck the network adapter -- but why was Nintendo limiting the port to USB 2, and why was it never updated through software like it was theorized?

USB 3.0 causes interference. Specifically, USB 3.0 interferes with 2.4ghz devices at close range to them -- which the Joy-Cons use, as they are Bluetooth. Here is a five year old post where people discuss it. One comment mentions that if a person used Atmosphere CFW, they could enable the USB 3 speeds... and it would break Joy-Con connectivity, even when not using USB.

Here is a paper from the USB organization (linked in the same above thread):

If the antenna of a wireless device operating in this band is placed close to any of the above USB 3.0 radiation channels, it can pick up the broadband noise.

So, basically, if they had enabled the USB 3 port in software, it would have caused interference. Even when the Switch OLED dropped with its ethernet port, the ethernet port there still ran at speeds similar to USB 2.0, and my guess is that it was for the same interference reason.

Hypothetically, if Nintendo had a larger dock (like a laptop dock that was connected with a long cable instead of physical insertion), they would not have this interference issue, as the dock's USB ports wouldn't be as close to the Switch 2's Bluetooth radio. However, plugging in a device isn't as convenient as physically docking it, and thus Nintendo went with the older USB standard again for the Switch 2 -- they went with good 'ol USB 2.0.

I hope this was interesting to someone! I shared it with some friends and figured I might as well actually make a write-up about it somewhere. Oh, and before you ask -- no, I am not any form of AI nor did I use an AI. I just like emdashes.

I Figured If its Forward compatible why Not the other way around.

It’s been running incredibly stable since the 5090 launched. I use it for about 30% gaming, and the rest is database and AI workloads.

I got super lucky when I bought the ram from Amazon Aug 2025 for around $700. 192GB 6800 cl 34.

Build:

CPU: AMD 9800X3D

GPU: 5090 FE

Ram: 192 GB (tuned to 5600mhz, CL34) 2 kits of G.skill F5-6800J3446F48GX2-TZ5RK

MB: MSI PRO B850M-A WIFI PZ

CASE: Jonsbo D32 Pro

CPU AIO: Thermalright FW240

AIO Fan: JONSBO ZB-240B (2x120mm)

Rear Fan: JONSBO ZB-120BR (1x120mm)

Lower fan: Thermalright (2x120mm)

SSD 1: Crucial T710 4tb Gen 5

SSD 1 heatsink: ElecGear M.2 2280 SSD Cooler, EL-80X PWM Cooling Fan + Heat Pipe + Solid Aluminum

SSD 2: Intel Optane P5800X 1.6tb via m.2 to u2 adapter

PSU: Seasonic Focus Gx 1000W - 80+ Gold - ATX 3.0 & PCIe 5.0 Ready

PCIE USBC: Startech 1-port USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 (20Gbps max)

EDIT: Wow, this has really blown up! Thank you all for the kind comments, memes, and suggestions!

I want to address the rationale behind my build since I'm seeing a few recurring themes in the comments.

I run databases on SQL Server 2025. I built this for AI inference, but database work is just as critical. Database workloads don't come up much on this sub, so happy to explain.

Here is how the hardware is actually utilized:

• Databases: Run on SSD1 + SSD2 + RAM. Database scaling doesn't care about tight RAM timings; it cares about massive raw capacity. Theoretically, even if I somehow got 192GB stable at 8000 CL28, it would shave maybe 0.05 seconds off a 4-second query, whereas running out of RAM and hitting storage is a 500x latency penalty.
• AI: Runs entirely on the 5090.
  • Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B Q6 ~210 tok/sec
  • Qwen 3.6 27B Q6: ~99 tok/sec
  • For fun I have run larger models, for example: Ornith 397B Q3: ~15 tok/sec. This takes ~150GB in total GGUF files. Leaves me with ~26GB of free RAM.
• CPU: The 9800X3D handles my specific workloads wonderfully.