Is there a way to add a usb 3.0 controller to an m.2 slot?

frozenice

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I have a weird question. I have been having issues getting my oculus rift setup working correctly, and I have found out that all of my USB ports are on just one Intel usb 3.0 host controller, which is not recommended (I have the 4 rift sensors and it is recommended to have no more than 2 on a single usb controller). I have a mini itx motherboard (ASRock Z270M-ITX/ac LGA 1151) that only has 1 pcie slot that obviously has my graphics card in it. I do have an unused M.2 slot, which references using up to "Gen3 x4 PCI Express". My question is do they make an m.2 USB controller or an m.2 to Pcie 4x adapter so I could plug in a pcie usb controller? Or should I just buy a new motherboard.

Update:
I found this on ebay, would something like this work? http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/262553363315?lpid=82&chn=ps&ul_noapp=true

 
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The adapter that you've linked would require that you buy a USB3.0 card that is paired with a PCI-E riser card. Outside of the latency issues, you will also have to deal with where you're placing the add-in USB3.0 card and how the wires will run off of it.

You could also look into this but I don't think it'd be reliable.

My 2 cents though.
:)

Lutfij

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The adapter that you've linked would require that you buy a USB3.0 card that is paired with a PCI-E riser card. Outside of the latency issues, you will also have to deal with where you're placing the add-in USB3.0 card and how the wires will run off of it.

You could also look into this but I don't think it'd be reliable.

My 2 cents though.
:)
 
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