Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work?

2007-08-07 Thread Robert McGwier
Ken: Let me add that this motherboard makes it absolutely trivial to overclock. I have never seen it so easy. I followed this page: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/395/1/ and overclocked my qx6700 to 2.93 Ghz (10% increase), effectively making it two qx6800's in a single package. They a

Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work?

2007-08-06 Thread Peter G. Viscarola
e- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > radio.biz] On Behalf Of FlexRadio KB Admin > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 4:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Flex Radio > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work? > > To buy or not to buy a F

Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work?

2007-08-05 Thread Robert McGwier
John P Basilotto W5GI wrote: > I want to reinforce the "TRY IT FIRST" > > I use the 5000 with several cheap firewire cards and my old Dell laptop has > a 4 pin firewire jack. All work well. > > John P. Basilotto > W5GI > Marketing and Product Manager > FlexRadio Systems > 512-535-5266 > > In

Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work?

2007-08-05 Thread Alan NV8A
The other point to watch is that manufacturers will sometimes change the chip on a board but keep the same model# and UPC, so you can't tell what you are getting without looking at the card -- although the picture or a version# in some minuscule type on the package sometimes reveals the differe

Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work?

2007-08-05 Thread Bob Tracy
; 'Neal Campbell'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: RE: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work? Bob, I'm also using an Intel board which uses the same Intel G965 Express chip set. I have the micro ATX Intel DG965OTMKR. I h

Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work?

2007-08-05 Thread Mark Mumaw
o:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neal Campbell Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work? I think the key is the agere controller chip so a via is not the best choice (ma

Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work?

2007-08-05 Thread FlexRadio KB Admin
work with" information. -Tim -Original Message- From: Neal Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 11:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work? I think the k

Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work?

2007-08-05 Thread Bob Tracy
ECTED] Behalf Of Neal Campbell Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work? I think the key is the agere controller chip so a via is not the best choice (many of

Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work?

2007-08-05 Thread John P Basilotto W5GI
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neal Campbell Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work? I think the key is the agere controller chip so a via is no

Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work?

2007-08-05 Thread Neal Campbell
I think the key is the agere controller chip so a via is not the best choice (many of the embedded firewire ports are via chips). Anyway, if you have a firewire card, try it first, then order is the recommendation from Tim. I had some time on my hands so ordered it just to "stay active" while wait

Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work?

2007-08-05 Thread Larry Loen
FlexRadio KB Admin wrote: > Please refer to the KB article on how to pick a Firewire host controller, > Selecting High Performance Firewire Cards for FlexRadio Transceivers > http://kb.flex-radio.com/article.aspx?id=10250 > > -Tim > FRS KB Administrator > That link in the article to the Syba pro

Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work?

2007-08-04 Thread Ken
; guarantee less system latency. >> >> On the other hand, the motherboard chip sets might work just fine and in >> that case there is no need to use a PCI or PCI-E bus card. Since >> there are >> not a lot of FLEX-5000s out there right now, there is not a lot of >>

Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work?

2007-08-04 Thread Jim McLester
: "FlexRadio KB Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Flex Radio" Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 3:11 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work? > To buy or not to buy a Firewire card. That is the question. > >

Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work?

2007-08-04 Thread Robert McGwier
I have the Intel D975Xbx2, in it is the Core 2 Quad Extreme (QX6700). I have only tested the controller under Linux but there it really works nicely under freebob, consuming next to know ticks while running the FA-66, all channels in full duplex mode. I have not tested the windows drivers yet

Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work?

2007-08-04 Thread FlexRadio KB Admin
ginal Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 3:24 PM To: Flex Radio Subject: Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work? Since we are on the subject, I had bought a new system board by "Intel". (D975

Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work?

2007-08-04 Thread Ken
sage- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Flanders > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 1:36 PM > To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > Subject: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work? > > You guys who have been doing the checkout of t

Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work?

2007-08-04 Thread FlexRadio KB Admin
Behalf Of Jerry Flanders Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 1:36 PM To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work? You guys who have been doing the checkout of the 5000 - what firewire card are you using? Hopefully every tester will respond so we will

Re: [Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work?

2007-08-04 Thread Neal Campbell
There is a list of recommended firewire cards in the Flex KB. I think they are now recommending cards using the Agere (sp?) controller chip as opposed to the TI chip with the SDR1K. I followed their link to microcenter and bought 2 of the cards for 12,99 each! 73 Neal On 8/4/07, Jerry Flanders <[

[Flexradio] 5000 Beta testers: What firewire cards work?

2007-08-04 Thread Jerry Flanders
You guys who have been doing the checkout of the 5000 - what firewire card are you using? Hopefully every tester will respond so we will know what works. Some are motherboard built-ins, I am sure, but others may be independent cards. The emachines dual-core P4 I plan to use did not come with fi