Ends today. Newegg has the Rosewill RC-505 2-Port USB 3.0 PCI Express Card for $25 - $10 off with coupon code EMCNJNB56 [Exp 1/14] = $15 with free shipping. Features two USB 3.0 ports with up to 5Gbps transfer speeds, and is backward compatible with USB 1.0/1.1/2.0 devices.
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Hey, look at that. Another USB 3.0 card that claims to transfer 5Gbit/s over a single PCI-E 2.0 lane, despite the fact that PCI-E 2.0 lanes only support a 4Gbit/s max transfer rate.
Compwiz that's how I like it, I'd rather not use up a PCIe 4X or more slot for the extra 1Gb/s that practically no USB3 devices need, except maybe an SSD but I'd use SATA6 for those since it's faster than USB3 even if it were somehow (an add-on card using the same PCIe 1x slot) similarly bottlenecked.
To put it in perspective, how many USB2 devices do you own that push USB2 as high as 60MB/s? Even external HDDs clearly capable of more, don't come near 60MB/s over USB2.
Here, I fixed it for you. How shut the hell up
Ends today. Newegg has the Rosewill RC-505 2-Port USB 3.0 PCI Express Card for $25 - $10 off with coupon code EMCNJNB56 [Exp 1/14] = $15 with free shipping. Features two USB 3.0 ports with up to 4Gbps transfer speeds, and is backward compatible with USB 1.0/1.1/2.0 devices. [Compare]
lol, Tie guy gets around.
You like it when companies falsely advertise the capabilities of their products?
You're missing the point. I have no problem that this is a USB 3.0 card on a single PCI-E 1x slot. That's fine, for the very reasons you point out. The problem I have is that they're lying to consumers with the specs they list.
There's no reason for them to say that their card can do 5Gbps if it can't. They should be listing it as 4Gbps, or make it use more lanes, or make it a PCI-E 3.0 1x card.