• tbop
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Topic: Any motherboard Socket 2011 based on a T.I. FireWire

Hi there,

I'm desperately looking since last Tuesday for a motherboard Socket 2011 which would be fully-compatible with my RME Fireface 800 and thereby running on a TI FW chipset.

I've been through all the manufacturers and seems they're all using VIA-based chipset.

Only Intel didn't provide any further detail about this inside their 80-page technical description but as far as I know Intel's motherboard are usually known for using a TI chipset right?

Thanks for your help!

A dood from Steinberg
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Re: Any motherboard Socket 2011 based on a T.I. FireWire

Hi,
I would just get  PCI-e TI based card and not worry about what the on board FW chip is.
Motherboards manufacturers can still screw up implementation of the on board FW even when it is a TI.

Chris

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  • tbop
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Re: Any motherboard Socket 2011 based on a T.I. FireWire

Hi Chris,

First and foremost thanks for this quick answer.

This is what I've checked in the meantime although I don't really want to allocate one PCIE port just for that in order to leave these slots for perhaps further SSD devices. But it seems I'll have t!
As far as I know the Firewire bitrate can't go higher than 400 MB/s right? So I just need to make sure it's using a PCIE 2x version at least.
Any good reference from yours btw for that kind of extension card?

Cheers

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Re: Any motherboard Socket 2011 based on a T.I. FireWire

tbop wrote:

As far as I know the Firewire bitrate can't go higher than 400 MB/s right?

You may be confusing MB(yte)/s and Mbit/s... FW 400 is 400 Mbit/s. Even good old PCI provides plenty of bandwidth for that.

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Re: Any motherboard Socket 2011 based on a T.I. FireWire

Hi,

No I was confusing FW 400 and FW 800 actually big_smile
Ok so no issue with the lonely PCI-e 1x left on every motherboard then.

Thank you guys!

A dood from Steinberg