
No issues once everything was installed

Easy to install, the Realtek RTL 2185 drivers worked for me as someone stated above.

Looks to be well made with the SATA ports attached solidly to the card (I purchased a few from other manf. in the past where the SATA ports broke or became loose and I had to super-glue them back on). Easy install: -- driver support as far back as kernel 4.18.16-300.fc29.x86_64, so happy about that! -- came with power and SATA cables - so it's a complete package for the price.


Maybe a Necessity if You Have a USB-C on Front Panel Header because no USB 3.2 GEN1 connector on motherboard. The PCI-E 1X to USB 3.2 GEN1 5Gbps 20pin Front Panel Header allows you to connect the USB-C front panel header to your PCI-E 1X slot


I upgraded my computer to a Rysen 5 5600 and the expansion slots were not exactly like my old mother board. I needed more SATA drive ports and this gave them to me.






- The heat sink plate is WELL CONSTRUCTED and nice and thick! Make sure you mount your M.2 NVMe drives and then place the heat sink adhesive on the drives and then mount and screw the plate in place. - Note: the board has a +12V fan connector on it that is not used in this variant. Riitop sells another that is a fan-based model were a fan (in place of the plate) would normally mount. - The kit comes with a decent screwdriver you need to install the heat sink plate. I have sooo many screwdrivers now because I have ordered similar kits.


- Ultimately works and does what it claims to do - Depending on your GPU displayPort I/O, can upgrade fully to Thunderbolt DP


- lowered temp of my 950 Pro by 20c by moving it to this card - easy setup - booted like normal on Z170M-D3H

plenty of ports. works well and didn't have to install drivers. windows did all the work. well built.

Works great right out of the box with all of my different Linux distros that I run on my HTPC. I can boot from 4 different SSD drives or 6 different fibre channel drives on an external array and all of my distros and Windows 7 Ultimate 64 recognizes the firewire and can access my Hitachi firewire drives and firewire cameras.

I was a little worried that I wouldn't be able to install the correct drivers as I don't have a disc drive on this pc. but windows was able to get it done without me doing anything.