PCI-E to USB 3.0 4 Port PCI Express Expansion Card (PCIe Card),Superspeed USB 3.0 Card with 15-Pin Power Connector for Desktops,Super Speed Up to 5Gbps

There are boards with more ports for much more money. This board is the most economical board I could find. I had a couple USB ports go bad on my motherboard and needed a board like this to get back to the configuration I had. The build quality looks very good. It comes with a SATA to ATA power adapter cable and a documentation CD. Drivers for Windows and Linux are included. I installed the card before I installed the drivers. The machine booted and stayed on the Microsoft 10 flag longer than usual. After the delay the boot process continued as before.I then installed the drivers for Windows off of the CD. I was not asked to reboot my machine. However I knew it needed to be done.When I rebooted the machine it went through a series of three reboots and long pauses between with a lot of hard drive activity. There was an update counter displayed. When all was settled down my machine was happy, therefore I was happy. After 1 hour of use I am very satisfied with my purchase. This only fits a high profile case.

There's not a lot to say about what the card is or does. It just adds 4 external USB 3.0 ports to the rear of a standard PC. It's totally Plug 'n Play with Linux (the OS that I use), with no drivers required. I like to use PCI-e to USB 3.0 adapters that have a total of 4 USB ports, as all of the USB ports are primary ports. In the case of this card, all of the 4 available USB ports are external at the back of the PC, with no internal USB ports. For the PC case that this card is installed in, internal USB ports couldn't be used. I'm very happy with it.

I, like many others, purchased this during the last Oculus Rift sale for the touch bundle and found the Inateck card to be out of stock and back-ordered. After researching, I found that the NEC chipset this card uses was reported to work well for the purpose. At the time, this was the best value for 'cost per port' and had enough ports for the Rift bundle with one extra.My card was delivered November 28th, 2017 along with the Rift, so it's been in use for approximately four to five months without a single issue. I did not use the drivers included with the card, Windows 10 recognized it out of the box, and it has been used only with my Rift and pair of sensors.Build quality was perfectly fine and I've never had any problems with the Rift and it's sensors being detected and they have passed all the Oculus self tests I've thrown at it.

Despite what all of the documentation told me, I bought this USB expansion card to use with the Oculus Rift over the recommended one because I could not stand the red PCB on the Inateck USB Expansion card even though that one is supposed to be guaranteed to work. My logic was that if the card does not work with the Oculus sensors, I would move my current USB peripherals that are plugged into my motherboard slots to the expansion card, and use my motherboard USB slots for the sensors. I did not have to do this. I use a 3 sensor setup and I was able to plug all 3 sensors into this expansion card and use the Rift just fine. I have the supplied Molex power adapter plugged into the card, and have had no problems with it having 3 sensors and an unrelated USB peripheral plugged into it. Even for long sessions in VR, I do not have disconnects or anything. I do have the HMD plugged into a front panel USB port, and the HDMI plugged into an HDMI extender, so the HMD is not also plugged into the expansion card. I have owned this card for a couple of months now and experienced no problems. My only complaint is the ugly "ketchup and mustard" colored Molex power cable supplied instead of a black one to match the PCB

I had an Anker USB 3.0 PCI Express card in my PC. It worked but if you did a restart from Windows, the card and any connected devices would not be found. I went into Device Manager to have Windows not control the power management on the card, but this didn't help. This didn't bother me until the Windows Anniversary Update where the PC gets rebooted a lot. The upgrade would fail and then for me to do a system restore would take a lot of time.I installed this card very easily. I did use an ESATA power extension cord I already had. Upon reboot, the card was found and all the devices connected to it without having to install any additional drivers.Then, I did the moment of truth, doing a restart. After a restart, the card was found, but one of my older Western Digital USB drives (a 2.0) wasn't. I did a hard power cycle and the drive was found again. I did a restart and the same error occurred. This could just be an issue with the drive and may have been the source of problems with the Anker card.I moved the drive to a free USB 2.0 port and everything works perfectly.I was now able to upgrade to the Windows Anniversary Update with no issues.

Worked out well for my slightly older PC running Linux, and provided the much faster data transfer rate of the USB 3.0 option. Unfortunately, my PC does not recognize the card on boot up, and my primary purpose was too boot into an operating system using a bootable USB. This is due to no fault of this card itself, but it’s something to keep in mind if this is your intended purpose. It will still work, but you will either need to upgrade your BIOS and hope that it recognizes the device on boot, or add a boot loader such as Plop, in order to see the cards USB device on boot up; the latter probably being the most practical of the two options.A good inexpensive option to add the USB 3.0 upgrade to older PC’s.