Firewire card recomendations

[Mongoo13]

First off, is there any reason to get a firewire PCIE card instead of a Plain PCI card? I think i will only need 2-3 1394a connectors added to the mainboard which has none. There are a lot of cheap options on new egg, but all the brands seem generic. So long as they are stable, and there is no slowdown/difficulty going from firewire through pci rather than having it right on the board, I see no issue with that. What do you recommend on these types of cards?

 

[Peter]

FireWire cards usually last forever ... so if you don't mind the extra few bucks, go with PCIE. But watch it - get one that is natively PCIE (with nothing but a Texas Instruments 2200 chip on, the only available native PCIE 1394 chip so far), not one that uses a bridge chip and a PCI 1394 controller.

Like this one here,

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16815283007

 

[Modelworks]

I second that.
When it comes to firewire, the ti chipset is the way to go .

 

[Mongoo13]

How can you tell which one's use the Texas instruments chipset or if one uses a bridge chip? They don't mention it in the specs from what I can see. That card looks good although really I need to find one that has 3 firewire connectors in the back that can all be used simultaneously. Is much gained with PCI-E over just PCI? Thanks