Internal Firewire Add on Card

[TLScrappy]

Hey guys,

Need a PCI firewire card. The card must have a six pin connection on the board so I can use the front mounted firewire connection on my Antec Sonata II case.

Did some quick searchs with no luck.

Help please.

Thanks!

 

[Lord Evermore]

Most cards I've seen that have an internal connector just have a normal Firewire port internally (which is really kind of strange and useless for most people).

Here's one model with the pins. Out of stock of course. And you should make sure your case's pinout is the same as the pinout on the card (unless the case cable just has loose pins).

Antec does sell an adapter for not very much money which is just the male 6-pin connector on one end and a regular Firewire connector on the other. http://www.antec.com/Detail.bok?no=334 (Though they don't specify it's for the Sonata, I don't know if they'd have changed the pinout between them.)

 

[TLScrappy]

Thanks "LORD." Checked out both links. The SBA is back in stock. The internal 9-pin connector will probably work. Unfortunately I was unable to get the pinout from the SYBA site. Wish I could get a better lookk before buying it. Then again this is a good excuss to buy more!!!!!

 

[corkyg]

And Tiger has a 4-port one - 2 internal - one is a 5 pin header.

1394

Sort of deja vu all over again - this same question was posed last week. Kind of a ganga deal for $15.

 

[Lord Evermore]

The one at Tiger even looks like the pins might be labelled.

 

[TLScrappy]

The one from tiger has the 9 pin connectoralso . Zoom in on it and you will see it!

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: Mainlander
The one from tiger has the 9 pin connectoralso . Zoom in on it and you will see it!

THat makes it an even better deal.

 

[TLScrappy]

I went with the syba from newegg. Should be delivered tomorrow, will let you know if it worked.

 

[ElvishFrost]

I have a question directly related to an add-on Firewire card. ( I hope this is acceptable, and is why I'm asking here after searching) I was under the impression that with an add-on Firewire pci card that the throughput would be bottlen4ecked by the PCI bus. I've talked to a couple of people and done some research and am getting conflicting results. Running a 2.8Ghz Prescott on an ASUS P4p800SE. 800Mhz FSB, 2g Pc3200. Anyone have any solid info for me or were my concerns valid and I'm going to need to upgrade mobo with integrated firewire?? Thanks alot

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: ElvishFrost
I have a question directly related to an add-on Firewire card. ( I hope this is acceptable, and is why I'm asking here after searching) I was under the impression that with an add-on Firewire pci card that the throughput would be bottlen4ecked by the PCI bus. I've talked to a couple of people and done some research and am getting conflicting results. Running a 2.8Ghz Prescott on an ASUS P4p800SE. 800Mhz FSB, 2g Pc3200. Anyone have any solid info for me or were my concerns valid and I'm going to need to upgrade mobo with integrated firewire?? Thanks alot

The PCI bus is rated for 133MB/sec, that's well above the max theoretical throughput of IEEE 1394a.

 

[Zepper]

PCI might be stressed by the new 800Mbit FW, but not much of that is out there yet.

To OP et al. - there is also an adapter cable available at http://www.frontx.com

.bh.

 

[SpocksBrain]

pm to OP: Did the Syba card work out? I'm looking at that one and the Koutech F7771 panel...

-SB