USB 3.0 PCI Express x1 Controller Card - $11.51 shipped @ Amazon

Rvenger

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Still not bad being that the cheapest one on Newegg is a Rosewill for $25. ;)
 

Samus

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i'm in for one. never heard of the chipset but for 11 bucks its totally worth it...unless it corrupts all my shit lol
 

jrichrds

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When there's no way around shipping, it's better to state the shipped price in the title. I thought I'd be able to get this for $5.57 with Prime 2-day shipping. :D

Back in the USB 2.0 days, NEC was the chipset to get on add-on PCI cards. It's performance and compatibility were way better than VIA and especially ALi. Same situation with USB 3.0 chipsets?
 
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Rvenger

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I bought one too... I have the cheapest Z68 Gigabyte board w/o USB3. (Didn't realize until I hit the submit button)
 

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When there's no way around shipping, it's better to state the shipped price in the title. I thought I'd be able to get this for $5.57 with Prime 2-day shipping. :D

Back in the USB 2.0 days, NEC was the chipset to get on add-on PCI cards. It's performance and compatibility were way better than VIA and especially ALi. Same situation with USB 3.0 chipsets?

I think there are other chipsets but I recently ordered one of these with the NEC chipset from eBay for 10.50 shipped.

Just received it Friday and I haven't yet put it in.
 

Tdavis5432

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I ordered one it was 12.05 shipped and then it was canceled by BestDealUsa, a little disappointed but I'll live, would have been nice but they are $19.95 + $2.99 shipping now.
 

nitsuj3580

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I ordered one it was 12.05 shipped and then it was canceled by BestDealUsa, a little disappointed but I'll live, would have been nice but they are $19.95 + $2.99 shipping now.

I just ordered one for $11.50 shipped. Maybe try again?
 

Tdavis5432

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Ordered again, we'll see this time, the only vendor this morning that had them was HDE itself for the $19.95, good thing they got them back in stock, thanks again!
 

Rvenger

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I received mine today. It came in an envelope and inside the envelope was a laptop "Cardbus Express" card box. Inside the smashed box was the PCIe USB card with a small driver disk. I had to bend the backplate to get it to fit properly but I hooked it up and it works just fine. Make sure to plug in the floppy power ;)

Edit: Just remember when you are plugging a USB device into it, the plug is positioned upside down.
 

Tdavis5432

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I ordered mine 10-19-11 and New Harbor supposedly shipped the card out on 10-21-11 and here it is 10-29-11 and I still have no card. It was supposedly sent via USPS and there is no tracking info available on Amazon.com! The kicker is that it says ships from NJ and I'm in southern VA, less then 500 miles away and still no card 8 days later... Anyone else order one of these and not received it yet? They are def getting negative feedback from me for slow shipping and not using a tracking number, I've never ordered anything lately that atleast didn't have some kind of USPS delivery confirmation number or something...
 

kalrith

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FYI, you can get this for $12.27 shipped (with Amazon Prime) if you select Best Deal USA as the seller. Then, it's fulfilled through Amazon.
 

nitsuj3580

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I ordered mine 10-19-11 and New Harbor supposedly shipped the card out on 10-21-11 and here it is 10-29-11 and I still have no card. It was supposedly sent via USPS and there is no tracking info available on Amazon.com! The kicker is that it says ships from NJ and I'm in southern VA, less then 500 miles away and still no card 8 days later... Anyone else order one of these and not received it yet? They are def getting negative feedback from me for slow shipping and not using a tracking number, I've never ordered anything lately that atleast didn't have some kind of USPS delivery confirmation number or something...

I'm in the same boat as you. Card was shipped out 10-21-11. The estimated received date range is 10/26 - 11/10. Pretty ridiculous. I'm just north of DC. Still no card.
 
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Tdavis5432

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I got it 11-4-11, they didn't ship when they said they did, and don't provide tracking info but I got it and its working, i had to install the drivers and uninstall and install again to get it to work though, not sure why!
 

djnsmith7

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Still haven't received mine, but I did receive shipping confirmation back on 11/8...strange...
 

killster1

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nice bump went to buy this and its 20 bux.. i guess ill pass at double price and bad shipping hehehehe.. wanted a usb3.0 card tho since have a few usb flash drives that are already really fast on usb2 and a few usb3 externals hehehe