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i’ve got an old ibuypower gaming tower (second owner, but i know the first, he didnt modify the tower) its got the generic USBs out the back mounted directly onto the motherboard, along with a couple plugs for additional USB ports, one of which is actively used (the 3.0 plug leading to a couple 3.0 ports on top of the tower) when viewing streams, streaming, or doing such network taxing tasks, windows will play the disconnect sound, or stutter the stream, reconnect my network, (mobile tethering, no wireless cards) and all USB devices will seemingly stutter with it. (example being device RGB lights)
motherboard is: msi 760gma-p34(fx)
plugged in: mobile phone providing tethering on top USB 3.0 port, the mentioned one with the plug. all other devices plugged into mounted USB on back, being; razer blackwidow chroma (uses 2 USB ports, second one powers the keyboard’s side USB, which my headset is plugged into (MPOW HC)) razer firefly razer naga 2014 dualshock 4 controller 2.5 inch external HDD, 1TB also a 3.5 inch HDD can also, and is sometimes, be mounted to the top, if that matters, although it doesnt use USB
am i using too much power? thing cant take it? i just dont know at this point. will add pictures upon request
Hi @magicalpamda I was hoping that it would show the actual power being used by each root hub as it is shown in my PC. As can be seen the two devices combined do not use the full power available on the root hub that they are connected to, but your devices may require more and may be near the maximum limit I was thinking that if each hub that had devices connected was delivering power near to the 500mA limit and all were doing this at the same time then it might have affected the connected devices if they didn’t have enough power intermittently. This is assuming that the USB controller that is in the attached devices are being powered by the desktop and do not have their own power supply.
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@magicalpamda definitely a weak PSU but this sounds like a network issue more than anything else. Have you tried to connect via wired network to see if it streams better. Streaming is very processor demanding and it is possible that your network connection can not supply what is demanded while streaming.
