Good cheap Firewire or Firewire/Ethernet card?

Eug

Lifer
Mar 11, 2000
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I'd love to get some external Firewire drives but right now they'd only be compatible with my iBook. What's a good card for my desktop (Win 2000, Asus P2B Celery 880)?
 

Hender

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Pretty much any card will do. I spent $20 and got an OEM card with the Agere (Lucent) chipset, and mine works just fine. I hear that TI makes the best firewire chipset, but I went ahead and got the Agere chipset and it works just fine.

Buy what you can afford. Firewire cards run anywhere from $15 to $70, and they all do exactly the same thing with barely any difference in performance (like a USB port/card).
 

vailr

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Firewire and USB 2.0 can be found on the same PCI card, such as Adaptec's, but not ethernet.
Modem/ethernet combo cards can also be found.
If only the firewire port is needed, the SB Audigy sound card includes one, as does the ATI 8500DV AIW video card.
 

JmanSanDiego

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I've used SIIG's firewire cards quite a bit and find them to be great! They have a combo Firewire/USB 2.0 card out now. Check www.mwave.com for some good prices.

Jon