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Question pci (not pci-e) card to add 2-3 rear usb slots to Windows 10 system?

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GunsMadeAmericaFree

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I have a ThinkCentre M82 sff Windows 10 system, and have used up all of the rear usb ports. I'd like to add 2-3 more usb ports to the back.
I looked inside the system, and found 2 pci slots and a mini pci-e slot that are not being used.

Since I have 2 unused PCI slots, I thought I would use a PCI card, then have one PCI slot, and one mini pci-e slot left.

I DO need low profile for this system. However, everything I have seen seems to indicate that the PCI based cards
won't work with Windows 10. Is it true that none of them will work properly with Windows 10? I would have thought
that since they offered free upgrades to Windows 10 on a lot of older hardware systems, there would be quite a few
with only PCI slots, and there would be a market for something like this.

Can anyone tell me for certain if PCI USB expansion cards don't work under Windows 10 for some reason? If this is
true, then I'll use the only remaining mini pci-e slot, but I'd prefer not to do so just to preserve future options. Thanks!
 
Well, if you go with the PCI slot, stick to USB2.0 cards. USB3.0 on a PCI slot is pointless.

Or just do the "normal" thing, and stop worrying about future expansion needs so much, and just get a LP-ready USB3.0 PCI-E x1 card.

Edit: Or you could, you know, get an external powered USB hub. Again, one of the "normal" options.

I use an Orico hub, with 3x USB3.0 ports on top, and 7x USB 2.0 ports in front. Upstream connection is a USB3.0 port, and it came with an AC power brick, which is plugged in. Works pretty well for me.

Edit: N.B. I'm pretty sure that you're talking about having a PCI-E x1 expansion card (LP) slot, not an actual "mini PCI-E". If you are in fact talking about a real "mini PCI-E" slot, you'll have to dig a bit deeper to find a USB3.0 expansion card that fits those. I think that they might exist, probably from a China vendor.

If you really mean "mini PCI-E", then you'll need one of these adapters, to convert it to a standard PCI-E x1 slot, and then get a PCI-E x1 USB3.0 card to plug into it.

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And if you just need a LP-ready USB3.0 external/internal PCI-E x1 card, this would do the trick:
 
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