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Installed on:: GIGABYTE AORUS GAMING 7 Wi-Fi X470 Motherboard Processor: AMD RYZEN 7 2700X RAM MEM: G.Skill Neo 64GB 3600Mhz Plug and Play Faster connection More stable speeds/ signal No packet loss while gaming It improves the outcome that your Internet Provider offers. Recommended when your motherboard just offers to handle 10/100/1000 Mbps and needs to improve the Bandwidth.

Used this to expand the number of drives in a smallish Ubuntu home server. Still testing, but seems flawless so far and transparent to the user - just more drives available. All I did was power down, plug it in the PCIe 3.0 slot, attach a couple drives, and power up. Drives were recognized immediately and accessible like all the others. They claim max throughput of 277MB/s but so far both drives tested at 500 MB/s+ the same as when plugged into the mobo ports. I assume the limited speed might occur if multiple drives were accessed at once. Since it's a server and I'm using this to add SSDs, i doubt I will ever notice any slow downs. Bonus: the 6 provided SATA cables have locking connectors and are of a reasonable length.

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

Build quality looks good. Works with every drive tried. Will work as a single drive adapter as long as a compatible 4X slot is available on an older motherboard.

Easy install, works as expected.

- 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.

No driver needed (other than required NVMe support in BIOS and OS). I get full speed expected for the WD Black SSD 256GB M.2 drive with this card.

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.

I needed a PCIE usb card with a Renesas USB controller for my Nvidia 3D Vision emitter. Im on a z570, which introduces some timing related issues that cause the emitters timing to drift. The only way I found to fix it, was to get a Startech PCIE usb card with a NEC or Renesas controller. Startech was the only brand with reasonably priced options, although, even this two port card was more than I wanted to spend. It works though, I spent days trying to find a solution to that problem after upgrading from a z370 to a z570. I think the listing says its NEC, but windows shows it as Renesas, it doesnt matter because either will work.