SYBA Low Profile PCI-Express 1394B/A Firewire Card Model SD-PEX30009

Pros: Using it with a Mac OS X setup. Works great. No drivers needed. Plug and play. Fast Small, only takes up the small 1x PCIe slot. TI Chipset

Cons: Comes as a low profile bracket card. But they provide a regular size bracket you can replace the smaller one with. That's pretty annoying to do. Not sure how many people actually are looking for a low profile firewire 800 card.

Overall Review: I didn't try it with Windows. But it's plug and play, working right out of the box on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

Pros: Not much to say...standard PCI-e firewire card, comes with a non-low profile (standard) bracket if that's your install. Drivers from Unibrain are available for this card that work with Windows 7 and Server 2008 both x86 and x64 flavors. Does what is says, 'nuff said. =)

Cons: Included driver CD is a "here are the drivers for all products we sell" type of deal. Chunk it, it's not worth your time. Check the updated drives (available via the mfg product page -> drivers here on newegg) to get your thrills.

Overall Review: Using this with a 2nd Gen Drobo, works great, no problems.

Pros: It does eventually work, once you find the right drivers, but man is it painful. Using it with a 2nd generation drobo. Can get 60 mb/s out of it 40 sustained. so performance is okay, beter than usb2.

Cons: no windows 7 drivers on manufacturer page. the drivers there give BSOD and perform terribly.

Overall Review: Do a search for "ubCore™ 5.70 for Windows XP/Vista/7 & 2003/2008 Server 64 bit." and you will find the correct drivers for this product

Pros: It is a relatively cheap and stable card on a TI chipset. Works with Behringer FCA202 audio without a glitch.

Cons: After upgrading my external firewire audio to Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 I discovered that Syba does not recognize the new audio even with a legacy 1394 driver. Saffire works great on my Toshiba laptop which also has a TI 1394 chipset. This is just a heads up for those who are looking for a FW port for Saffire. This card won`t work in Win 7/64. I ordered a SIIG NN-E20012-S2 instead, we`ll see.

Pros: Plugged it into my hackintosh (10.5.7), and it was recognized right away as Firewire 800, with no driver installation needed. Works with my hard drive and Griffin FW audio device (I understand audio devices are especially picky). I don't have a FW800 device to try it with, however. Has internal pin header for your cases FW400 connector. Comes with brackets for both standard and low-profile cases.

Cons: Pin connector comes really close to neighboring card. Could be my motherboard I guess...

Pros: Literally plug and play in Windows 10. Auto-installs Texas Instrument's standard OHCI compliant host controller driver that Windows chooses by default. So, it basically works right out of the box. I use Premiere CS3 and a very small free app but an old one called WinDV to capture video from my DCR-VX1000 Sony Camcorder, a machine dating back to the early days of mini-DV tapes. This, of course, is NTSC based video. Yes, I’m long past the hill-top, but I digress. Premiere operates the camcorder playback controls perfectly. With both apps, I can capture and record video streams without a single dropped frame. I captured an entire 60-min video from the camcorder without a single dropped frame. Encountering even one dropped frame is unacceptable because one drop means there will be others and I don't get that warm fuzzy.

Cons: No problems for bi-directional NTSC video/audio capturing. Can't say for anything else because I don't have anything else.

Overall Review: If it works with Win 10, It’s gotta work with earlier versions probably back to XP. I fully recommend this card for DV capture and recording. Two reasons I wanted a firewire card. First, the Gigabyte MX Gaming 5 MB that I just got doesn't have one on board (an afterthought). Second, my church could better to integrate live camera feed into their media production which is MediaShout 6. I have successfully done this on my PC using my old camcorder but not with their modern Sony HD cam which has a firewire port. I want to demonstrate combining live feeds into MediaShout and hopefully convince them to start using their high powered i7 6700K based machine for more than just throwing text and graphics up on the projector screens and using an external A-B box to switch between the PC video and camera video.

Pros: Works as advertised. Basically the only card of its kind left, and I looked in a lot of places.

Cons: None

Overall Review: I'm glad this is still around, I've looked everywhere to compensate for my case's firewire port since basically no motherboard nowadays have a firewire header. Works as described.

Pros: I can not stress this enough, this card uses the Texas Instrument chipset. Guaranteed to work with all firewire audio hardware. Plug and play simplicity. Good capacitors.

Cons: None. Just plugged it in and it worked flawlessly.

Overall Review: Bought this PCI-E firewire card to connect my Focusrite Saffire Pro firewire audio interface to my computer. A word of warning to anyone looking for a firewire card. BE SURE that whatever PCI firewire card you choose uses the Texas Instruments chipset or the card WILL be unusable for audio. Texas Instruments firewire cards are guaranteed to work with all audio interfaces. No audio dropouts and zero issues. On Newegg just look at the PCI-E firewire cards and if you see a outline of the state of Texas on any of the chips your golden.