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SC7 · 07-29-2006, 01:30 AM

Not neccisarily. Firewire orriginated in the Mac world (and is now dead there), and the PC world was very warry to adopt it. It really has never been a standard, and certainly not on 478. Firewire has been sort of a special niche feature for certain motherboards that have it. Most of the top motherboards until recently were 50/50 of having it, you'd have to kick it down to find a board that supported it.

Firewire 800 is almost double the speed of USB 2.0. I reccomend getting a PCI Firewire card. These are very cheap, and can hold about 3 hook ups in them. If you have the port on the front of your case, there's usually an internal connector right on the expansion card.

Here's a selection of 1394 Firewire PCI cards at Newegg

Hope this helps, sc7

07-29-2006, 01:30 AM	#2 (permalink)
SC7 Platinum Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: New Jersey, USA Age: 17 Posts: 757	Not neccisarily. Firewire orriginated in the Mac world (and is now dead there), and the PC world was very warry to adopt it. It really has never been a standard, and certainly not on 478. Firewire has been sort of a special niche feature for certain motherboards that have it. Most of the top motherboards until recently were 50/50 of having it, you'd have to kick it down to find a board that supported it. Firewire 800 is almost double the speed of USB 2.0. I reccomend getting a PCI Firewire card. These are very cheap, and can hold about 3 hook ups in them. If you have the port on the front of your case, there's usually an internal connector right on the expansion card. Here's a selection of 1394 Firewire PCI cards at Newegg Hope this helps, sc7 __________________ My Rig Pentium 4 2.8 GHz Northwood Intel 845GVSR Motherboard 1 GB PC 3200 DDR BFG Tech FX5500OC 256 Mb PCI Edition 160 GB WD Caviar SE (8 Mb cache) Edition 60 GB WD Caviar SE (8 Mb cache) Edition Sony DVD-Rom/CD-RW Drive Dynex DVD+-R/RW Dual Layer Drive Nice MAG Innovision 17" LCD Flat Panel Monitor.