pci-x usb card?

[MrPG]

hey gents, ladies,

anyone know of a pci-x (133mhz preferably) usb card? with preferably 4usb pin headers?

I need a usb 2.0 card but my box only has pci-x slots, and i have peripherals on each pci-x bus that i want running full speed, so i dont wanna stick in a pci (32/33) card onto the bus crippling my other periphs.

Thanks

 

[P3N1X0R]

so your board doesnt already have 4 usb2 ports? and u need more im guessing? lol lots of usb stuff there eh?

 

[MrPG]

My board is kinda sucky interms usb but here is the deal;

My box has 5x USB 1.1 ports (3 taken up by input devices)
I have quasi-pro audio and network devices that require USB2.0, which my system doesn't have, so I need a card.

So the problem with getting a card is;
My box has 4x PCI-X Slots on 2 separate BUS' - 2 slots each, BUS A operates at 64bit/133, BUS B at 64bit/66mhz or 100mhz.
I have scsi raid @ 133mhz on BUS A and sound card @ 100mhz I believe, it is for sure PCI-X compatable.

I'm thinking if I stick in a 32/33mhz card that'll cripple the whatever BUS its on to 32bit/33mhz and that would kinda suck.

So I started looking for pci-x usb cards this morning but haven't found any so far.

 

[0810]

why not a usb port? its this big stick that is a USb itself but has maybe aoubt 4 ports outside, each port gets its power from the plug that goes into an existing port in your pc.

 

[drfish]

You mean a hub? That won't turn 1.1 into 2.0 which is what he's asking for...

 

[MrPG]

why not a usb port? its this big stick that is a USb itself but has maybe aoubt 4 ports outside, each port gets its power from the plug that goes into an existing port in your pc.

I take it you're saying use USB hub? If so that doesn't help me really, Its not that I need more ports its that I need USB 2.0 and my system just has USB 1.1

Then we go into the secondary problem, whcih is my board has PCI-X slots and if I use a 32bit/33mhz card my PCI-X BUS gets downgraded to regular PCI, which intern downgrades all my PCI-X peripherals.

 

[Panda Man]

well, i donnu what PCI-X is to be honest, but i went to newegg and types in PCI-X USB Card and got this

hope it helps

 

[aug1516]

well, i donnu what PCI-X is to be honest, but i went to newegg and types in PCI-X USB Card and got this

hope it helps

PCI-X is a slot type used on server motherboards and such. It provides much more bandwidth than traditional PCI cards and is used frequently for things like gigabit ethernet cards and raid controllers. As far as I know there is no such thing as a PCI-X usb controller card. I just can't see there being much of a market for such a thing. The card you linked above is not PCI-X even though it came up in the search results.

 

[Panda Man]

PCI-X is a slot type used on server motherboards and such. It provides much more bandwidth than traditional PCI cards and is used frequently for things like gigabit ethernet cards and raid controllers. As far as I know there is no such thing as a PCI-X usb controller card. I just can't see there being much of a market for such a thing. The card you linked above is not PCI-X even though it came up in the search results.

meh, didn't think it would be since i know nothing of PCI-X... thnx for the explaination

 

[MrPG]

As far as I know there is no such thing as a PCI-X usb controller card. I just can't see there being much of a market for such a thing.

Yep, I was hoping some I/O Card manufacturer would've jumped on PCI-X being it supports up to 1066Mbit/sec transfer. Seeing something like USB 2.0 rates are, what, like 480/500mbit/sec.. it kinda makes more sense to build something like USB/Firewire Combo Card for PCI-X (1066/Mbit/sec) as apposed to PCI (133Mbit/sec) when you factor in its already shared/saturated with IDE devices and such.

If I hadn't already spent so much money on this setup I'd say its time to upgrade.