Belkin Belkin USB 2.0 Hi-Speed 5-Port PCI Card
Posted by Notcot on Apr 6, 2010 in Handhelds & PDAs |
Product Description
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- Up to 480Mbps USB 2.0
- PCI Plug-in Card
- 4 x 4-pin Type A USB 2.0 – USB External
- 1 x 4-pin Type A USB 2.0 – USB Internal
- Support – PC, MAC
Card arrived by 1st class post in 36 hours. My PC is a 9 year old MESH machine with a 500 Mhz AMD K6 processor, so not exactly the latest! I run it under XP SP2. The card installed physically with only a minor seating problem which was solved by slightly bending the tab opposite the fixing screw so as to get the slot on the edge connector to match the key in the mother board connector. Powered up the PC and just left XP to get on with it. Installed in a few minutes. No need to use the enclosed CD as XP has the drivers. Swapped over several USB peripherals including an external hard drive with no problems at all and the whole machine is significantly faster. You get what you pay for. Forget the problems with £1.50 boards and get a Belkin.
Rating: 5 / 5
My aging Abit KX7-333R motherboard only has USB1.1 ports on, and having purchased an external HD I figured I should get a PCI USB2 card to connect it to.
The Belkin card fitted into a spare PCI slot easily, WinXP recognised it and installed the drivers for it, and that was that! Since then I’ve not had a single problem with it. I’ve connected three USB2 devices to it at the same time and copying and moving files from them all worked just fine. I’ve had no crashing or system instability with the card, and all in all I have found it to be faultless.
If you need a USB2 card for your computer you could go for a cheap one, but why bother when this one is only marginally more expensive and works so well?
Rating: 5 / 5
Rapidly running out of USB ports on my new PC what with webcam, printer, camera, RS232 converter, Axim cradle etc etc etc – not to mention the ports used for keyboard and mouse these days. Why don’t PC/motherboard manufacturers provide more USB ports as standard?
Anyway, bought two of these peaches to fill my Dell’s remaining PCI slots. Just plug in and amazingly, shock-horror, here is some hardware that actually works immediately with Vista, and no need to install extra drivers.
All working well – and delivery was less than two days, despite going for the cheapest option. All round good value!
Rating: 5 / 5
I’m always wary of messing about with the hardware but this installed without any problems, just pushed into the appropriate slot, fired up the PC and XP recognised it without any intervention.
Since then it has worked perfectly without any problems with several different devices.
I bought this one because I’d seen some reviews about having problems with the cheaper cards but in the scheme of things reckoned it was worth paying £14 for something from a recognised manufacturer instead of £7 for something from an unknown one.
Nothing more to add really.
Rating: 5 / 5
Fantastic quality product, just plug and play – works a treat.
Don’t be tempted to buy cheaper products with the VIA chipset as I have been there and have spent hours trying to get them to work.
Rating: 5 / 5