Is there any significant performance difference when using a system that has firewire support on the motherboard versus using a PCI add-in firewire card on a system that doesn't have native firewire support on the motherboard? Specifically is one more likely than the other to have dropped frames on a DV capture from a camcorder?
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One my PCs has a PCI firewire card, and another has a built-in firewire port in the mobo. They both work the same. I've never had dropped frames on either. That's my experience, anyway. Have a good CPU and capture program, and you probably won't have problems.
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it won't make any difference. built-in controllers and pci cards all have to go through the southbridge chip at the same speed.
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I agree, no difference. Some earlier on-board and audio card 1394A interfaces had problems, but they seem to have solved that with newer chipsets. I had the most problems with VIA interfaces. But, either way, they either worked or they didn't. The speed was the same when they worked. With most new MBs having only two or three PCI slots, you just about have to depend on on-board interfaces.
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I see you are on Vista and P4.
If you were on Win98/ME/NT4 there may have been a difference. Those cards needed a driver.Recommends: Kiva.org - Loans that change lives.
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Originally Posted by edDV
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A good-quality port, or one which is compatible with your Firewire device, will work fine. One which does not fulfill the first two requirements will probably not work as well.
The actual location of the port is not relevant, EXCEPT - Mobo port is not changeable. It is also part of a bundle, the quality of the port may be guessed at by the quality of the board it is installed on.
As mentioned, quality issues have largely gone away as these have become somewhat generic. -
Early Firewire interfaces required proprietary drivers and had multiple issues (e.g. the DV port on some audio or display cards).
The Open Host Controller Interface (OHCI) on modern IEEE-1394 cards standardizes port control from the OS. These ports connect through the PCI bus. It doesn't matter if the port is on a card or the motherboard.
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