I've used many of these adapters in my "retro" game consoles where the motherboard didn't support USB3. I recently used one of these computer adapters I built for his nephew. I put the HP board in a case with USB 3 on the front. Since HP uses a proprietary pinout for its USB 3 connector on the board, I used this adapter so I could just use the standard USB 2 connector on the board and still have the front I/O working. It would be really nice if someone made an HP USB 3 to standard USB 3 adapter like they do for the Dell fan headers.