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I posted in a discussion forum about the above card for when using USB 3 connected external drives.......but my post may have gotten lost in the talk on that thread.
So posting here to reprise it and ask for any insights about these PCI cards as below:-
I have been re-reviewing the possible options to add USB3 to my older PC which has PCI Express2.0 Standard slots.
I have found that some cards say the chipset is supported natively under W10 so a big tick for that to reduce the potential for poor compatibility of drivers!
All are reduced 'short' connectors but my next fastest PCI slot after the x16 used by the GPU is the x8 slot and both those slots are the longer ones. So the question is, is the PCI slot wiring suitable for using such shorter connection 'sets' such that most of the x8 slot would be unused or are these sort of cards obligated to utilise the minimal x1 PCI slots???
PS I am well aware that PCI 2.0 standard is slower than PCI 3.0 standard...................but provided the card will deliver faster USB than 2.0 I would be content, though the closer to USB 3 speed the better
PPS here is scan of the manual page showing the PCI slots to illustrate what I meant about the slot sizes
View attachment 318004
And this for clarity is one example of the type of card I am referring to re: short connector.
View attachment 318005
I posted in a discussion forum about the above card for when using USB 3 connected external drives.......but my post may have gotten lost in the talk on that thread.
So posting here to reprise it and ask for any insights about these PCI cards as below:-
I have been re-reviewing the possible options to add USB3 to my older PC which has PCI Express2.0 Standard slots.
I have found that some cards say the chipset is supported natively under W10 so a big tick for that to reduce the potential for poor compatibility of drivers!
All are reduced 'short' connectors but my next fastest PCI slot after the x16 used by the GPU is the x8 slot and both those slots are the longer ones. So the question is, is the PCI slot wiring suitable for using such shorter connection 'sets' such that most of the x8 slot would be unused or are these sort of cards obligated to utilise the minimal x1 PCI slots???
PS I am well aware that PCI 2.0 standard is slower than PCI 3.0 standard...................but provided the card will deliver faster USB than 2.0 I would be content, though the closer to USB 3 speed the better
PPS here is scan of the manual page showing the PCI slots to illustrate what I meant about the slot sizes
View attachment 318004
And this for clarity is one example of the type of card I am referring to re: short connector.
View attachment 318005
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