• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

PCI X Firewire 1394b

I

imported_Loos1

Junior Member

Hope someone can help me out. I'm more user than builder.. Need a PCI X 1394b Firewire 800 card for my Xeon machine to hopefully improve transfer rates of Compact Flash cards and an external harddrive. My machine does not have a normal PCI slot.

Anyone know a good reliable brand?

TIA,

-Jim.
 
I do not think the 800 card will help with the CF transfers. CF is limited to a speed much below even firewire 400.

 
Originally posted by: JPMNICK
I do not think the 800 card will help with the CF transfers. CF is limited to a speed much below even firewire 400.
Click to expand...
True, plus the hard drive isn't really being bottlenecked much if at all by FireWire 400 either. IIRC you could drop a regular PCI card inot a PCI-X slot (assuming you mean PCI-X and not PCIe or PCI Express)
 

Okay, thank you for that. The cards transfer at 80x which they claim is 20 mbs so no effect there. USB 2 is 32 mbs right?? Why not an increase in speed at the harddrive though? It is a Lacie and Firewire 800 capable, so shouldn't the transfer rates improve? (by nearly double?)

llRC ??? Not sure what you mean. I have to go check right now on what the slot is exactly.. I thought it was PCI X, but it may be PCIe.

Thanks for the help...

Anyone care to quick explain 80x with respect to card speed?? Never did really get this measurement as in 8x DVD etc. 48x CDrom and so on.
 
If you PCI-X bus runs at 66MHz or faster make sure the PCI card can handle it. Otherwsie downclock your PCI-X bus to what the card can handle.
 

Well, it looks like this is my configuration.

one PCI Express x16 graphics slot

one PCI Express x4 slot don't know what its for

one PCI 2.2 slot (5v, 32 bit) this is the old kind right? It's blocked by the graphics card and is not usable.

3 PCI-X slots This is where I thought the Firewire 800 card would go.

Lastly, it says AT 4.2" x 11" PCI and One at 4.2" x 9"

Any help appreciated...its mostly greek to me. Thanks all, this is a great site, just don't get here often.

-Jim.
 

Looks fine. So it will go in one of the PCI-X slots, right??

Sorry so noobie, just don't see where it says that. A normal PCI card will not go in a PCI-X slot right???
 

MDE, then what card for PCI-X on Win XP? Can you help there?

BTW, I have a regular PCI Firewire 800 card (bought it from Lacie when I bought the external harddrive) Trouble is, I'm afraid to use it in one of the PCI-X slots. I had a Dell dual 3.6 Xeon machine burn up right after installing it in one of the PCI-X slots. It worked once though transferring from the external drive. Then poof...the machine stopped working the first day I got it. Dell gave me another one, but now I don't want to put that card in, so thought I would buy a new one.

Really appreciate your taking time to help.
 
PCI is 32bits 33mhz (32 X 33 million in bits per second) bandwidth limited to 127mbps to all device on at bus.
PCI-X running 64-bit 66MHz would be 4 times that.
 
Originally posted by: ribbon13
No Firewire 800 card will work with windows if you go by why the reviwer had a problem.

http://www.rme-audio.com/english/techinfo/fw800sp2.htm
Click to expand...

Gotta love the folks at RME. this once again demostrates why, IMHO, RME is one of the best tech company ever. Those guys never do anything without having their Sh!t together first. When they developed their first laptop interface, they posted reviews of dozens of different laptops, how well they worked, what the problems were, and how to fix it, if you could.

Other companies need to look to them for guidece on professional practice.

/pats hamerfall DSP gently.

:thumbsup: for those kickass germans
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top