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Asus P5K & Firewire
Name: doghead Date: May 15, 2008 at 11:09:03 Pacific OS: XP Home CPU/Ram: Q6600 Product: Presario
Comment:
Does the P5K have Firewire built in; and if not, if there anything in the P5K family which does; or will I have to buy a FW card? This is for audio recording, which will use a FW Focusrite Saffire interface.
All you had to do was check the Asus website. Yes, the P5K has firewire - "VIA VT6308P controller supports 2 x 1394a ports (one at midboard; one at back panel)"
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Response Number 2
Name: doghead Date: May 15, 2008 at 11:51:26 Pacific
Reply:
Thank you for both the information and the scolding. I 'had' checked the Asus site and did not understand the terminology, which is why I asked in more prosaic terms.
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Response Number 3
Name: OtheHill Date: May 15, 2008 at 14:11:40 Pacific
Reply:
Firewire is an Apple term. The controller is a 1394. FYI there are two speeds of firewire. 400 and 800. I don't know if any PC boards have the 800 integrated or not.
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