I need to determine how many individual USB 3 controllers/buses are on a PC. The PC in question is a Gigabyte Brix GB-BXi7H-5500.
I plan to use this with a Microsoft Kinect v2 sensor, which is a USB 3 device and needs to be on its own USB controller. If there are multiple USB 3 controllers in the PC, I would like to be able to plug in an external USB 3 hard disk as well – but I want to make sure that this doesn't interfere with the Kinect.
The PC in question runs Windows 8.1. I've checked in Device Manager under 'Universal Serial Bus controllers' and I see the following:
But I'm not sure how to interpret this in terms of separate controllers/buses. Is there a way to know for sure?
Best Answer
You have a single USB3.0 controller - the "USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller".
According to Intel (Page 48 of the document):