Anything I need to Know about Firewire cards?

[Spooner]

I'm getting an iPod for my PC and need to buy a firewire PCI card.

Anything I need to know about it? Certain standards I need, or are they all the same and I can just get the cheapest one?

Any recommendations on where to buy one?

 

[amnesiac]

Oxford 911 chipset is one of the better ones.

But almost any of them should work. Compgeeks sells them for like $13 and work fine; it's what i have in my PC.

 

[FoBoT]

they are a standard item, like a NIC

newegg has some for under $20 with free shipping, search for
'firewire pci'

 

[amnesiac]

Oh and it's Firewire.

 

[pennylane]

I got mine at Fry's for $10 AR. One of those Sunday morning ads.

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

Originally posted by: amnesiac
Oh and it's Firewire.

Depends if his system has adequate cooling or not.

 

[loup garou]

Make sure it'll supply power to charge the Ipaq (I believe they have a 6-pin connector). One of my clients bought a ghetto card and it doesn't charge his Ipod, so he has to charge it, then unplug the charger and connect it to his computer to transfer music. PITA

 

[pennylane]

Originally posted by: werk
Make sure it'll supply power to charge the Ipaq (I believe they have a 6-pin connector). One of my clients bought a ghetto card and it doesn't charge his Ipod, so he has to charge it, then unplug the charger and connect it to his computer to transfer music. PITA

I do that. Even though my firewire card can charge up the ipod. It doesn't wear out the hard drive that way (paranoia).

 

[Spooner]

Originally posted by: amnesiac
Oh and it's Firewire.

Stupid typos.

So it sounds like firewire cards are relatively standard. That's what I figured.

 

[chiwawa626]

I just made a thread about this, Basicly you just need a 6 pin firewire card, the 6 pin version carries power as well as data, while the 4 pin only carries data. People reccomended the Texas Instruments chipsets, i got one off ebay for 12.xx shipped, and it arrived within 2 days of payment, but i have yet to install it....still waiting for my ipod!