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Add On Card W/USB Headers??

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Necrosaro420

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My motherboard has 2 USB headers on it, and both are used by my case USB ports. Im wanting to buy a internal card reader, and those use the USB headers. Are there any Add in cards that have USB headers on them? I looked over and newegg, but I get to confused =) Thanks!
 
When I somehow managed to blow my integrated USB, I got a new USB card with a NEC chip and one internal header off eBay for under $10. shipped.

.bh.
 
Originally posted by: IsLNdbOi
Get the SIIG card. It uses a NEC USB chipset. Stay away from USB cards that use VIA, ALI, and ULI USB chipsets.
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Yeah, go with the siig, I did not even look at what chip was on the card 🙂 oh well
 
That SIIG doesnt appear to have usb headers on them, or im not seeing them in the image? The card reader has 2 rows, 1 row of 4 and 1 row of 3 that it plugs into
 
So you need a card with two USB headers in parallel rows like on a mobo? Not likely on an add-on card. One of the rows must be for an extra front panel USB jadk, so you'll probably have to do without that. OTOH, use the mobo headers for your card reader/front panel USB jack and use the card for your rear ports... Found plenty of NEC based PCI USB 2.0 cards on fleaBay at under $10. shipped. Both versions of the SIIG card has a single row of pins for one internal connectiaon. Adapter cables are available from places like frontx.com to go from a standard jack to pins, but that wont help much as I've not sen one that can merge two into one, two-row header. I think the OTOH is the way to go.

.bh.
 
Yet another link:
*****/6-ports-usb-2-0-pci-card.html

Its got 5 external and one internal.

EDIT:
Crap! The link is jacked up.
How about this?
meritline.com/6-ports-usb-2-0-pci-card.html

For some reason Anandtech wont let me type in *****.

Try adding a www to the link above and that should work.

This is a lot more expensive:
http://www.monoprice.com/produ...=1&format=1#largeimage
But its PCIe so in theory you should be able to use all 5 ports at once with max speed.
I cant think of any situation that would require me to have five 480mb devices working at once.

Also, this is pretty sweet.
http://www.monoprice.com/produ...=1&format=1#largeimage
 
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