USB 5 Port PCI Card/Cardbus – VIA Chipset – USB 2.0 – PC & Mac
Posted by Notcot on Apr 22, 2010 in Home Cinema & Video |
Product Description
USB 2.0 PCI Host Card Provides 4 External & 1 Internal USB Ports, and allows High Speed Data Transfer between USB Devices, for PC and MAC
- Brand New, VIA Chipset, USB 2.0 Compliant, Supports Data Transfer Rates of 1.5/12/480 Mbps
- Provides 4 external and 1 internal downstream facing ports. (Type A Socket)
- 32-Bit 33 Mhz host interface compliant to PCI Specification release 2.2
- Supports Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP & MAC OS 8.6 (USB 1.1), OS X (USB 2.0)
- Supports PCI-Bus Power Management interface Specification release 1.1
USB 5 Port PCI Card/Cardbus – VIA Chipset – USB 2.0 – PC & Mac
Perfect for the Philips VOIP321 handset, has the VIA chipset necessary.
Works perfect, plug in, turn on, done. Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 – straight in with all three.
Philips VOIP321 VoIP And Skype Compatible Digital Cordless Telephone
Rating: 5 / 5
Having battled for three months to get my Packard Bell Desktop (running Windows 7) to send data to my iPod Touch I finally accepted that the in-built USB was never going to deliver any sort of performance. I researched fairly hard for a solution and came across the same answer repeatedly- add a new PCI USB card. I then researched the various choices. They all seemed to have various pros and cons. At the end of the day I just wanted a reliable USB 2.0 card with at least two ports. The expensive cards all had features that were of no interest so I settled on the model here. It utilised the VIA chipset, as did my computer and ticked the rest of the boxes. My only concern was how cheap it was.
The card arrived – looked fine. I unpacked it and installed it – about 5 mins. I then restarted the computer and everything installed automatically. I now inserted the iPod cable and the iTune app fire up. I now pressed the ‘SYNC’ option. Wow! the transfer went like lightening – I got my entire collection (7,500 songs and 2,500 photos) uploaded to the iPod in about 1 hour!!! This had previously taken nearly a week.
Conclusion – never mind the price, it delivers the performance in spades. I cannot believe I left this upgrade so long. As an IT professional I must say I am impressed with the price/performance. I cannot wait to try my other devices through this card – it’s like a new computer again. Any computer is only as useful as its inputs and outputs. The USB port is a key element – this product has saved my computer from the scrapheap.
If anyone is having similar issues with the transfer speed from thier iPod I can recommend this very cheap solution.
Rating: 5 / 5
Windows 7, plug the card in, switch on, Windows finds and installs drivers, card works just fine. What could be simpler?
Rating: 5 / 5
Fitting card into the PC was remakably simple, took about 5 mins (excluding time to un/re-plug cables to get into PC). On re-booting Windows XP detected the card and installed it with no problems.
Rating: 5 / 5