USB2.0 PCI-E Cards?

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SolidSnake3035

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I'm in the need of a nice USB expansion card to take some load off of my on-board USB for webcam, audio, and some other stuff. I took a quick look around and it seems like there are a lot of options, but not necessarily anything recent or of particularly high quality. At least, it's hard for me to tell what's what.

So I was hoping to come here and get some suggestions, because I don't want to end up with something that doesn't work well with my chipset or Windows 10, or whatever else...

Are there any nice well-made PCI-E USB2.0 cards that will work flawlessly with Windows 10 and my X99A chipset, and provide relatively clean power to the devices plugged in?
 
Why USB 2.0? USB 3 will cost the same and is compatible with any 2.0 device.

Oh yeah...it's faster too.
 
Well, I'm not totally sure if certain legacy devices like some audio interfaces will work exactly the same on USB 3, and stuff like latency is a concern...

But if there are any cards that meet the other requirements and are guaranteed to handle USB 2.0 devices exactly the same (or better?), I'd be happy to hear about them. I don't know that I'd actually be plugging any USB 3 devices into it, though.
 
I have a few different audio interfaces/mixers that are USB 2.0 or older, I guess 1.1 would have been before that? And I may need to use others in the future, possibly older used equipment. Since audio stuff is nice in that as long as it's good quality and works well, you might not benefit from having brand-new technology, so there's a lot of stuff out there.

My main concern is having something reliable that will work well with any of this stuff that I might plug into it, and specifically provide clean power to it, so presumably from a direct connection to the PSU rather than just bus power? And quality circuitry to manage it?

So whether I get that from a card that's USB 3 or 2.0 I guess doesn't matter, though I'd assume 2.0 would be less expensive and more likely to function properly with older stuff. I just need to know it'll perform well on my setup, and I thought I may have read something in the past about USB 3 stuff handling 2.0 or earlier differently, maybe with more latency, I'm not sure.
 
USB 3.0 should be fully backwards compatible. If its not, then plug those devices in the motherboard.
 
So does anyone have some suggestions? I wouldn't even know where to begin with figuring out whether any particular card will have the quality I'm looking for, especially with the clean power delivery.
 
i suggest you get whatever pcie usb 3.0/1 has good reviews on newegg and is in your budget. isn't that much of a difference unless you get cheap-ass shit from fleabay.
 
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