Does a PCI-e card exist for sata AND usb headers?

TheEnthusiast · Jan 28, 2015

I am maxed out on my mobo for usb 3.0 headers and sata headers. I need 1 more usb 3.0 header and 2 more sata headers. Is there a PCI-e card that can grant me at least that? I've looked everywhere and I can't find any workable solutions. I only have support for 16 lanes total and I'm using a gtx970. I'm afraid that if I use up two more PCI-e slots for usb and sata headers that my graphics will suffer

. Is there one PCI-e card that can supply me with both? Please help me out if you know how I can work this out!!

Tradesman1 · Jan 28, 2015

One you can use in a x4 slot

http://www.everythingusb.com/asus-u3s6-usb-3.0-sata-3-pci-express-18307.html

Do you have any available PCI slots?

TheEnthusiast · Jan 28, 2015

I have only used one x16 slot for my gpu. I have 4 available PCI-e X1 slots and 2 more x16 slots. Just wish my mobo could support 32 lanes for PCI-e..

Tradesman1 · Jan 28, 2015

Know the feeling, been giving thought to an Asus Z97-WS, which has a PLX chip to increase the number of available PCI-E lanes, have heard both good and bad about the implementation and efficacy

Cristi72 · Jan 28, 2015

Tradesman1 :

That is a good adapter (I have one), but unfortunately it has no USB 3.0 header...

OP, use the card Tradesman1 suggested for the additional SATA III ports, and for USB 3.0 use this:
http://www.amazon.com/Yixoo-2-Port-Express-19-pin-USB3-0/dp/B00OXFZXT6/ref=sr_1_67?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1422481762&sr=1-67&keywords=usb+3.0+sata+3+card+adapter

TheEnthusiast · Jan 28, 2015

But won't that use 2 additional slots? I will go from a current x16 only using my gpu.. to (x8, x4, x4) with 2 small cards sittin in my remaining two x16 slots..

Hmm..
Is there a way I could just use one PCI-e card for my 2 needed sata headers and use an adapter to turn my usb 20pin cable into a male usb3.0 that I plug into the back of my cpu I/O board? Is that possible??

Tradesman1 · Jan 28, 2015

Can just plug a USB3 hub into one of the slots for additional USB ports

TheEnthusiast · Jan 28, 2015

The issue is that I have a usb 20pin header from a rack in the front of my cpu that needs a home somewhere on my mobo(hence the usb3 header req.) and I also have 2 sata data cables that need a home as well.

Cristi72 · Jan 28, 2015

TheEnthusiast :

Any PCI-e card, even an x1 one, will make your GPU to use only 8 PCI-e lanes. What motherboard/CPU do you have?

Tradesman1 · Jan 28, 2015

My bad misunderstood, used 1 about a year ago think it was made by Syba or Startech

TheEnthusiast · Jan 28, 2015

I just built my rig last night: i7-4790k cpu///msi z97 mpower max AC///Evga gtx 970 ftw acx 2.0/// corsair rm750 psu///rosewill Thor v2-w case///corsair h100i liq cooler///corsair vengeance pro (4x8) ddr3 1600 ram

Cristi72 · Jan 28, 2015

TheEnthusiast :

Your motherboard has a pair of USB 3.0 headers, JUSB3 and JUSB4; you already use both of them? Also, you already use all 8 SATA III ports? If so, maybe it's better to use for storage an external enclosure with USB 3.0 connection (even a 4-drive RAID0 setup will have troubles saturating a single USB 3.0 connection), and keep in the PC only the high performance drives.

As I was saying, any additional PCI-e card, even a x1 one, will make the graphics card to use only 8 PCI-e lanes. The performance difference between x16 and x8 connection for a single graphics card is not sizeable, but any PCI-e adapter will prevent you to go for a SLI setup in the future, as NVidia cards needs at least an x8 connection.

TheEnthusiast · Jan 28, 2015

Yes unfortunately I have. My main drive for boot, OS, steam, games is a Samsung 850 pro 250gb ssd, and I have 4x 2TB HDD in raid5 to protect importAnt data and backups.. That eats up my sata ports

Cristi72 · Jan 28, 2015

TheEnthusiast :

Your motherboard has two SATA III controllers: the default Intel one (SATA1...6) and an ASM1061 for SATA 7+8, so you should have two unused ports (unless of course you are using multiple optical drives).

Unfortunately, you cannot easily circumvent the lack of PCI-e lanes for the SK1150 platform; there are some motherboards with 2 x16 support (they use a PLX chip, a PCI-e lane multiplier), but only ASRock Z97 Extreme9 has two USB 3.0 headers and 10 SATA III ports.

TheEnthusiast · Jan 29, 2015

So yes, I have officially used up all SATA and USB3.0 and 2.0 headers on my Mobo.. Does anyone know of a single PCI-e card out there that offers BOTH a SATA header AND a usb3.0 header?

Tradesman1 · Jan 29, 2015

http://www.inateck.com/inateck-ktu3fr-5o2i-usb-3-0-pci-express-card/

http://www.amazon.com/Inateck-Express-Connector-Controller-Internal/dp/B00FPIMJEW

TheEnthusiast · Jan 29, 2015

That is only for USB3.0 The SATA port on that card is for power.

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