Firewire cards

[decolb]

I have purchased a new Dell XPS 8500 which has no firewire port. It has 3 open PCI_Express x1 card slots. There seem to be a slew of different cards available and would appreciate any recommendations specs, etc.

Thanks, Dave

[Chuck Engels]

We always said to be sure it had the T.I. chipset (Texas Instrument) and was OHCI compliant.

[RJ Johnston]

Today I installed a FireWire PCI-express card on my new computer with Windows 8, and it works very well. It's a Syba-Profile-PCI-Express-Chipset-SD-PEX30009 ordered from Amazon.com. There is one 1394a and two 1394b ports. It has the Texas Instruments chipset and is OCHI compliant. I captured standard definition video from a MiniDV camcorder on the 1394a port. Capturing worked without any problems in Adobe Premiere Elements 11, Sclive, PowerDirector 11, Corel VideoStudio X5 Pro, Sony Vegas Pro 10. There weren't any problems getting connected. The box comes with a disc with some drivers on it for earlier operating systems. I did not install those. The card has the low-profile bracket on it, but I unscrewed it and put on the regular bracket that comes with it.