> Hi, > > What is the latest recommended firewire cards for flex-5000, > windows-7 > and pci-express? > > Howard
I just went down this road last weekend after building a new machine for the shack. After several failed attempts using various PCI 1394a cards I had laying around (NEC, VIA, JMicron chipsets), ultimately I went out and bought a card that with a TI chipset. The one I found is a Bytecc 1394a PCIe card, model # BT-PE1394 ($40). Out of about 30 cards that I checked, this Bytecc and one of the SIIG's were the only two cards with the TI chipset at MicroCenter (the SIIG was PCI). So far so good at 192 kHz; the other non-TI cards would stumble and fall at higher sample rates. For PCI, the Lacie 400 seems to be the best bang for the buck. For PCIe, I didn't find any real bargains - expect to spend $30-70 on a good card with the TI chipset. If there are cheaper PCIe cards with viable chip sets out there, I didn't find them during the course of Googling for the better part of an hour before running out to MicroCenter and finding this Bytecc. In case you haven't already seen it.. http://kc.flex-radio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50179.aspx --- Jeff WN3A _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
