SATA-3 Card for Hard Drives

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• 3 PCI Express gen2 x16 slots
- two dark Blue PCIE x16 slots (PCI_E2 &PCI_E4) support up to PCIE x16 speed, one Blue PCIE x16 slot(PCI_ E5) supports up to PCIE x4 speed
- supports ATI® Crossfire™
• 2 PCI Express gen1 x1 slots
• 2 PCI slot, support 3.3V/ 5V PCI bus Interface
My original motherboard was replaced with a MSI X58 Pro-E.  This motherboard does not support SATA-3 as are my hard drives. 
Is there a SATA-3 card that would work in one of the above slots at the SATA-3 6GB/sec?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=100006519&isNodeId=1&Description=sata+controller+card
Not sure how well they work. With spinner HDD's, I don't believe there is much difference between SATA II and SATA III performance.
Some SATA III HDD's have a place for a jumper on the back that allows them to run without any problems on SATA II ports and controllers.

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