Anyone recommend a USB 3 card for the Oculus?

NeilF

NeilF
People seem to suggest getting this one? - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inateck-Superspeed-Ports-PCI-E-Expansion/dp/B00B6ZCNGM

If I move a rarely used USB 3 backup drive from the back of my PC to that expansion card, than means I have two USB 3 ports on the back of my PC free, and three on the expansion card free...

So I can run two Oculus ones in the PC, and one into the expansion, or the other way around.


Anyone had any experience of getting a PCI expansion card for the oculus?
 

Loworbit

Loworbit
Thats the one. If you need additional USB 3.0 ports for the Rift, that card is the way to go. Don't use a USB 3.0 Hub if you can avoid it.
 

Loworbit

Loworbit
NeilF said:
And have you got all three of your OR usb cables in that one card?

It's interesting as I've seen a couple of articles stating people are using USB2 ports for their sensors fine... and with less problems than USB3 ports.
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Oculus suggests that you should plug any additional sensor (second and third) into USB 2.0 and NOT USB 3.0. Thats what I did.
USB 3.0: HMD, sensor 1 (front), Xbox wireless receiver.
USB 2.0: sensor 2 (back)
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Inatek card works for me but here's an alternative that seems to come highly recommended ...

[video=youtube_share;qKLkj3nfd9U]https://youtu.be/qKLkj3nfd9U[/video]
 

TorTorden_VR

T
Loworbit said:
Oculus suggests that you should plug any additional sensor (second and third) into USB 2.0 and NOT USB 3.0. Thats what I did.
USB 3.0: HMD, sensor 1 (front), Xbox wireless receiver.
USB 2.0: sensor 2 (back)
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The say this to reduce the amount who might flood their use 3 controllers bandwidth
You might have 2 or four plugs but they all mostly just run off the one usb 3 controller chip.

They say usb 3 has 5gpbs and that is not untrue, but those 5gpbs are shared between all devices connected to that one controller and piling on high bandwidth devices can thus flood the controller and drop the whole house of cards.
 

NeilF

NeilF
Loworbit said:
Oculus suggests that you should plug any additional sensor (second and third) into USB 2.0 and NOT USB 3.0. Thats what I did.
USB 3.0: HMD, sensor 1 (front), Xbox wireless receiver.
USB 2.0: sensor 2 (back)
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Surely that xbox wireless receiver could be USB2? So that means just two USB3 ports required?
 

Loworbit

Loworbit
The XBox wireless controller would happily run on USB 2.0, it's just a human interface device, they don't need a large bandwidth.
But a have a USB 3.0 hub on my table for convenience and wireless works best when transmitter and receiver are in sight of each other.
 

NeilF

NeilF
Loworbit said:
The XBox wireless controller would happily run on USB 2.0, it's just a human interface device, they don't need a large bandwidth.
But a have a USB 3.0 hub on my table for convenience and wireless works best when transmitter and receiver are in sight of each other.
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Ahh I have usb 2 and 3 slots on the front of my pc case so I could just plug the dongle into usb 2 port on the front when I need it. Ie when the pc is on?

So if I put the headset into a mb usb 3 port. A sensor into the inatech usb 3 board, and then another sensor into a USB 2 port... All sorted?
 
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mahoon

mahoon
Loworbit said:
Oculus suggests that you should plug any additional sensor (second and third) into USB 2.0 and NOT USB 3.0. Thats what I did.
USB 3.0: HMD, sensor 1 (front), Xbox wireless receiver.
USB 2.0: sensor 2 (back)
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I think two sensors are fine on USB 3 - third sensor on USB 2 is their advice, I believe. For the flooding reasons that someone else pointed out.
 

Loworbit

Loworbit
I wouldn't use the USB 3.0 front panel of your pc, at least not for a bandwith hungry device. The shielding of the internal wires is super bad.
 

Strangepork

Strangepork
NeilF said:
People seem to suggest getting this one? - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inateck-Superspeed-Ports-PCI-E-Expansion/dp/B00B6ZCNGM

If I move a rarely used USB 3 backup drive from the back of my PC to that expansion card, than means I have two USB 3 ports on the back of my PC free, and three on the expansion card free...

So I can run two Oculus ones in the PC, and one into the expansion, or the other way around.


Anyone had any experience of getting a PCI expansion card for the oculus?
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If it's possible maybe go for the same brand as your motherboard, or USB port manufacturer.
 

NeilF

NeilF
Loworbit said:
I wouldn't use the USB 3.0 front panel of your pc, at least not for a bandwith hungry device. The shielding of the internal wires is super bad.
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I only use the USB3 port on the front for my 3month periodic backups, when I plug in an enclosure... Apart from that the front slots aren't really used.

However, it would seem to make sense maybe with the wireless dongle, if I'm about to use it for the OR, then just plug it into on of the USB2 free slots on the front of the case... And then remove when I'm finished.



So if I'm just planning on sitting and using the OR, and maybe standing only for games where I can basically stand in one direction - I only have 2m wide x 1.3m deep of floor space in front of my desk - then if I put the two sensors?:-
1) One about 6ft up at the back right corner of the desk on a shelf looking across and down.
2) The other on the left side of the desk on the desk, that would provide good coverage?
And if both of those were plugged into USB 3 ideally?
 

NeilF

NeilF
Oh! And I'll need a HDMI->Display port converter too, as my I only have one HDMI connector on my 1070 and its in use...
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
NeilF said:
Oh! And I'll need a HDMI->Display port converter too, as my I only have one HDMI connector on my 1070 and its in use...
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Are you sure that there isn't another one with a blank covering it? My 1070 has these:


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I had to remove a little plastic / rubber bung / cover from the HDMI port.
 
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