Review on StarTech.com Quad Port PCI USB 3.0 Adapter Card with SATA/SP4 Power - SuperSpeed USB 3 Controller Card (PCIUSB3S4), Red by Nick Childs

Bought this card hoping to expand the use of my outdated but reliable old Dell Inspiron 4600, which has faithfully served our family since 2003 of the year. This is a 32-bit system that has a feature that prevents you from upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10. With a few inexpensive updates, the 3.4GHz Pentium 4 is good for word processing and web surfing. I was hoping that this PCI card would speed up data transfer from my advanced USB wireless LAN adapter and external hard drive. The card installed without any problems and shows up as "enabled" in my device manager list, but it doesn't recognize anything I've tried to connect to it. I've spent way too much time looking for drivers, uninstalling and reinstalling them, doing countless reboots, and using lots of choice swear words. PCI systems have an internal "bus" speed limit, so the modest increase in USB 3.0 connection speed by maybe 30% just isn't worth it in my case. hope you have better luck