Is Firewire/1394 Dieing or Dead yet?? What new motherboards support 1394??

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Hi all,

Is Firewire all but dead??
What new asus 1155 motherboards support firewire still??

My "Old" Asus p867 and asrock both support 1394 how about the newest boards??

Thanks!

ETA: This is for firewire audio recording devices.

 

[Kodongo]

Yeah, it's pretty much in a vegetative state and waiting for someone to pull the plug and put it out of its misery.

Proprietary solutions very rarely last the course and die quick deaths because they only have access to the more expensive segment of the market. Technically, Firewire 400 is greater than USB 2, but with USB 3 ubiquitous, available and open, Firewire no longer has a reason to exist.

I have one Firewire 400 port on my Asus P8P67-M Pro and I have a Firewire capable WD MyBook Studio. Ironically, the performance of the MyBook is better in the USB 3 port (despite only being USB 2 device) than on FireWire.

I heard JJ from Asus saying in a motherboards.org YouTube video that one of the criteria which governs what they will put on a motherboard is: "Are more than 25% of our users likely to use it?". Clearly with FireWire, the answer has become a no, so it is being phased out. The opposite is occuring with Thunderbolt which is now being brought in at the high end and will filter down to the mainstream later.

 

[x26]

Yeah, it's pretty much in a vegetative state and waiting for someone to pull the plug and put it out of its misery.

Proprietary solutions very rarely last the course and die quick deaths because they only have access to the more expensive segment of the market. Technically, Firewire 400 is greater than USB 2, but with USB 3 ubiquitous, available and open, Firewire no longer has a reason to exist.

I have one Firewire 400 port on my Asus P8P67-M Pro and I have a Firewire capable WD MyBook Studio. Ironically, the performance of the MyBook is better in the USB 3 port (despite only being USB 2 device) than on FireWire.

I heard JJ from Asus saying in a motherboards.org YouTube video that one of the criteria which governs what they will put on a motherboard is: "Are more than 25% of our users likely to use it?". Clearly with FireWire, the answer has become a no, so it is being phased out. The opposite is occuring with Thunderbolt which is now being brought in at the high end and will filter down to the mainstream later.

Thanks for the Answer.
I would have gone all these years without giving a crap about firewire but many recording interfaces still use it. I'm surprized it's been supported as long as it has.

 

[SKORPI0]

The Asus X79 Sabertooth mobo has them. One of the requirements I needed for me to record HDTV via Firewire with 10.7 OS X (Hackint0sh). I'm probably one of those 25% users who still need it.

 

[tweakboy]

Now they have options at places you buy pc built,, to not include firewire.. but

I can tell you the top tier motherboards up to ivy boards do have firewire in the back and probably 2 eSATA instead of 1... gl

 

[Insert_Nickname]

If you really need Firewire, why not get a PCIe Firewire expansion card?. If you change the mainboard you can just move the expansion card along...:hmm:

 

[corkyg]

The expansion card point is a good one. This is also a factor bearing on the problem - Apple owns Firewire.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1104&page=2

 

[Insert_Nickname]

The expansion card point is a good one. This is also a factor bearing on the problem - Apple owns Firewire.

And that has pretty much been the core issue since day one...:whiste:

Edit; make sure that if you get an expansion card that its a PCIe one. Especially with Firewire-800, as it can saturate the old PCI bus. Particularly if you have multiple device on the same PCI bus. Sometimes certain expansion chips on the mainboard run on the run on the same bus as the expansion slots...

 

[mfenn]

If you really need Firewire, why not get a PCIe Firewire expansion card?. If you change the mainboard you can just move the expansion card along...:hmm:

:thumbsup: Correct answer when dealing with uncommon interface ports.