HTPC Motherboard w/Onboard USB 3.0

[morocco31477]

I'm going to be building a HTPC soon. I need a motherboard that has onboard USB 3.0 so that I can connect the front USB ports of my case (I want USB 3.0 in the front, not 2.0). All the motherboards I find have USB 3.0 for the back ports, but the onboard is 2.0. Does anyone know of any models?

[Tripredacus]

HTPCs are all about form factor. If we are thinking the same thing here, I found a couple already... such as:

Zotac H55ITX-C-E

Gigabyte H55N-USB3

However you may find more if you go here, which is what I typed in:

(because posting google links is unruly)

If you are looking for larger sized boards, there may be more options out there.

[puntoMX]

I'm going to be building a HTPC soon. I need a motherboard that has onboard USB 3.0 so that I can connect the front USB ports of my case (I want USB 3.0 in the front, not 2.0). All the motherboards I find have USB 3.0 for the back ports, but the onboard is 2.0. Does anyone know of any models?

Those are hard to find as you already noticed; ASRock was showing off with their front USB 3.0 "connector", but that's the only one I know of so far. by the way, for HTPC, altrough it has no USB 3.0 front ports, check out a AMD E-350 based board (APU), review here on AnandTech, and a board from Gigabyte here.

When I have more time I'll dig trough the ASRock site to see if I can find some info .