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The USB3 won't make a difference. It's actually a hardware issue with the rtl2832u in the SDR that causes the drop. I'm not sure why one controller is OK, but that's what I've heard.
I'll be honest that I don't really understand why oversampling helps. But as far as I know it only increases the dynamic range, and if you don't have a large difference between the weakest and strongest signals you are receiving there isn't any benefit. And also, yeah, the environmental noise is probably way higher that the ADC noise.
If you've been a ham for 9 years, you probably know more about this than me. I've been into radio/SDR for about 1.5 years now, and I've mostly just done satellite stuff in that time.