USB 3.0 and SATA 3

When it comes to USB 3.0 performance Asus has always really impressed me. Standard performance of their USB 3.0 is more than capable but when you dig into their AISuite III when you have a USB 3.0 device hooked up you just might have the option to turn on USB 3.0 boost.  As you can see below, I ran our test both with and without the boost to see the difference that it makes. We went from 280MB/s to 430MB/s by switching to the boost on, it kind of feels like I found free money when I use the USB 3.0 boost. Even without USB 3.0 Boost both Asus boards pulled ahead of the MSI Z87-G45 but with boost the difference is night and day.