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Onboard v. PCI Firewire - Any difference?

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KnightPalatine

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Hi all,

I'm shopping for a motherboard. For video editing, from my Sony TRV-350 Digital 8 camcorder, would I notice much or any performance difference between onboard Firewire and a PCI Firewire card? Am I correct in thinking that the transfer rate, in either case, is limited by the HDD?

Thanks for your help.
 
400Mb/s-->50MB/s. The interface may still limit the drive to some extent.

There's two types of onboard. One is where the firewire controller is part of the southbridge (I'd guess performance would be higher, but I'm not sure), and the other is where a firewire chip is stuck on the board as part of the PCI bus. The performance using the second config should be similar to using a PCI card. You'll want to check up though.
 
Even with southbridge-resident FireWire, you should still make sure that you're still not on the PCI bus. Has anyone really put out a non-PCI native solution?

-SUO
 
I have had both - currently have it on the mobo - neater. Performance is exactly the same as far as I can tell. The main advantage I see is not having to have anything in a PCI slot except the NIC. If that were on the mobo, that would be even better. Next time! 🙂
 
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