 Firewire Vs Pci, Motu 896 and the Mac |
 Thu 22 Aug 2002, 20:26
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 Anybody have any preferences or know of any issues or differences between the Motu 896 firewire outputs vs the PCI Card?I'm running a new g4 dual 1.25 |
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Fri 23 Aug 2002, 00:25
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Technicaly, those are quite different beasts. The PCI will *always* have less latency than firewire. Firewire doens't guarantee the bandwidth available, and there also protocol overhead etc. it's great for bulk IOs, but, like USB, the latency is omnipresent.
On a PCI card with a good driver, you have virtualy no latency (well, the size of your buffers) and also zero CPU impact if the card is bus master and uses DMA properly. -------------------- |
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makeydusod Firewire Vs Pci Thu 22 Aug 2002, 20:26
Synthetik On a fast system you will be ok with firewire. I ... Tue 27 Aug 2002, 00:50 |
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