Intermittent USB on CH Gear duing gameplay.

[BigR]

I just got a new mother board (Gigabyte 790FXTA-UD5). Ever since I installed it, whenever I play AH, the joysticks will disconnect in mid flight for a second or so and then come back. It always seems to happen in the middle of a fight. None of my other USB devices ever disconnect in this fashion, and I am at a loss. I have tried hooking all the CH stuff to a powered usb hub. I have turned off all USB power management features. Nothing works. I am not sure if I should return this MB or what. It is an awesome board otherwise, and  I hope I can figure this out. My only other option would be to get a dedicated PCI usb card. Even then I am not sure if that would even fix the problem. I hate throwing money away trying to figure out whats wrong. I was just wondering/hoping that someone else has had this problem and figured out what it was. Thanks.

[The Fugitive]

What size power supply do you have? Maybe with the new board your pushing the powersupply to hard and its dropping out your USB bus.

[BigR]

ive thought about that but the power supply is new as well. Its a 550 watt OZC with dual 25 amp 12v rails. I have a kill-a-watt hooked up to it and in game with crossfire graphics enabled its only pulling around 280watts

[The Fugitive]

550 is pretty small, 750 is what most go for these days. Not sure of the specs on yours, it my be a good one, don't know. If you have a big video card, sound card, big duo-core cpu they can suck up some juice, especially with the game running.

[BigR]

i think i figured it out. I was overclocking my processor and although it ran stable in prime 95 overnight, it seems to be causing the problem, because when i set it back to stock, the issue seems to have gone away. I will need to experiment more with my over clock. I may need to up the voltage to my processor a bit.

[BigR]

btw...thanks for your replies <S>

[bj229r]

I've thought about over-clocking...not sure what the rewards/penalties would be

[BigR]

I've thought about over-clocking...not sure what the rewards/penalties would be

On my processor, it doesn't make much of a difference. I went from 3.1 to 3.5ghz and honestly didn't notice a difference in real world speed. Benchmarks were a little better, but meh...I would rather have the stability. I am going to mess with some settings to see how stable I can get it, but If it ends up I have to put it back to stock for good, it wont bug me too much.