Source for custom expansion card backplates?

Yeah, that might work. I'll look around.

Involute said:

Yeah, that might work. I'll look around.

Hi,
Yeah if your mother board has two extra usb 3.0 ports it should be fine
If not you may need a dual usb 3 .0 card and one of the dual cables I posted too if you only have one spare usb 3.0 port on the board.

The problem I'm trying to anticipate is an errant peripheral that needs to be connected directly to the PC and not through a hub, so I want a couple of those ports available in this remote head. As I think about it, though, the ones on the mobo for internal connections are connected just as "directly" as the ones on the mobo edge for external connections, so two internal ones should be enough and I can feed the others in the head from the external ports, of which I'm sure there'll be plenty (even leaving one or two for hubs), even though I haven't settled on a mobo yet. So, the bracket should have two connectors for USB 3.0 ports and space for a third connector (TBD but maybe a D-sub) to pass the other signals (power switch and LED, reset switch, HDD LED, headphones, and mic). Something like this, into which I could machine an opening for the third connector (though it would be nicer if the ports were justified toward one or the other ends of the bracket). Something with three USB ports would be ideal as I could just cut off the end of the USB cable and use its wires (with appropriate connectors) for these signals.

Berton said:

The add-in cards I get are for 4 USB 3 ports and one of those had a 5th port on one inside edge for feeding a front panel adapter.

Hi,
Might have to post to one seeing he already said google-fu is not the best.

Thanks. Since the bracket attaches to the card (and not the ports) in all those examples, removing it will leave the ports behind on the card. I think I'm better off going with something like this and making a cutout for the third connector in the abundant space. At the moment, I'm leaning toward cutting a cable like this about 2' from the female end and mounting the female connector to the bracket. Then the male end can easily plug into it. The internal wires get terminated as appropriate.