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It's firewire 400, that pc must be really old. The fact that we've come to the point where people don't recognize firewire makes me feel old too to be honest :P

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5 minutes ago, it_dont_work said:

Firewire 400

 

 

1 minute ago, Sauron said:

It's firewire 400, that pc must be really old. The fact that we've come to the point where people don't recognize firewire makes me feel old too to be honest :P

Learned something today I guess what was the use case for it?

 

Well I'm kinda new in the building aspect so probably a bunch of connectors I don't know yet. 

 

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4 minutes ago, NLD1st said:

 

Learned something today I guess what was the use case for it?

 

Well I'm kinda new in the building aspect so probably a bunch of connectors I don't know yet. 

 

The rig is horrible but the pcbs are fancy. Gold blue and black haha. But does the job for interwebs browsing I guess. 

Networking, bouncing footage off of dv cameras, transferring files at a pretty decent speed when the only other alternative was shitty usb 2

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Oh man Firewire 400. I used to have a LaCie external drive with Firewire 400, it was the shit. A shame it was really only an Apple thing, I came across a few Windows based computers with it, but it was far & few.. Which sucked cause I kinda liked it.

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That PC has removable serial/gamepad and LTP ports? I haven't seen that on a PC since the days of 80486s and EDORAM!!

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Firewire A, also known as IEEE1394A or Firewire 400, cause it can transfer up to 400MB/s.

 

Apple was the only one, to use Firewire B (IEEE1394B), it's transfer rate is double at 800MB/s.

 

Firewire also supports networking, it will show itself as network adapter under network properties.

 

I used to have a firewire hdd enclosure, transfering was a lot faster or more stable than usb. And I still have a firewire card in my parent's machine, for the really old ipod.

 

 

 

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Am I the only one who never used anything firewire related?

I've always assumed it was just another funky connector apple made and never really made its way to a windows PCs.

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22 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Apple was the only one, to use Firewire B (IEEE1394B), it's transfer rate is double at 800MB/s.

Fun fact: Apple wasn't the only manufacturer to use Firewire 800. Many scanners and digital cameras used the interface from companies like Nikon and Epson. They were generally very high end devices ($5000+ scanners, digital cameras for microscopes, etc) and not aimed at consumers, but they totally exist.

I support devices like those in research labs on both Mac and Windows.

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Firewire! My Chieftec had one of these connections.

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1 hour ago, argyle said:

Fun fact: Apple wasn't the only manufacturer to use Firewire 800. Many scanners and digital cameras used the interface from companies like Nikon and Epson. They were generally very high end devices ($5000+ scanners, digital cameras for microscopes, etc) and not aimed at consumers, but they totally exist.

I support devices like those in research labs on both Mac and Windows.

Back then some of them also used the scsi and ultra scsi inteface.

And here are some uncommon usb ports

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10 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

That PC has removable serial/gamepad and LTP ports? I haven't seen that on a PC since the days of 80486s and EDORAM!!

Yea its a weird rig for me. Proprietary Asus mobo, a geforce 8400, this FireWire thing, 2 CD read/write that are way never then the rig and finally a wd blue 500 gb in it relatively new. 

 

Its a bit Frankenstein. If I spoke Hungarian I would come up with a 2nd hand build. Can't understand how her mom is fine with a Intel dual core e4200 (or something like that can't remember exactly) and 3gb of ram on windows 10. 

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5 hours ago, NLD1st said:

Can't understand how her mom is fine with a Intel dual core e4200 (or something like that can't remember exactly) and 3gb of ram on windows 10. 

It would be a bit slow, but for browsing the web and such, it should be fine. I have used slower computers with windows 10.

 

If a speed boost is desired, one could also get away with upgrading the CPU to a faster chip that's compatible with the motherboard and maybe swapping some other components like ram and an ssd.

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8 hours ago, Ertman said:

It would be a bit slow, but for browsing the web and such, it should be fine. I have used slower computers with windows 10.

 

If a speed boost is desired, one could also get away with upgrading the CPU to a faster chip that's compatible with the motherboard and maybe swapping some other components like ram and an ssd.

Yea i did consider that there is a e4500 in it. But tad more ram and ssd would help a bunch. But they are my gf s parents I only see in the summer. 

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FireWire was nice in two specific aspects.  That internal port was a header, to allow you to connect to case front connectors. 

 

It could daisy chain, similar to Thunderbolt, so you didn't require a hub (also you couldn't use a hub).

 

It also had a sustained file transfer speed of 400mbps instead of a burst transfer like USB, which is why it was preferred for video work.

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On 7/6/2017 at 10:55 AM, Sauron said:

It's firewire 400, that pc must be really old. The fact that we've come to the point where people don't recognize firewire makes me feel old too to be honest :P

Yeah.

 

Considering I still have a firewire cable and an external HDD that can use that connector.  Sucks that most mobos no longer have it.  Still a nice connector for big file transfers.

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1 hour ago, Ithanul said:

Yeah.

 

Considering I still have a firewire cable and an external HDD that can use that connector.  Sucks that most mobos no longer have it.  Still a nice connector for big file transfers.

my motherboard still has it, it must have been one of the last (it's from 2011)

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On 7/6/2017 at 5:45 AM, NLD1st said:

So... I'm bored at my gfs parents house so I offered to dust out their PC (knew this didn't happen in years ) and I game across this connector anyone knows what it is? It is a bit shaped like a house on its side. 

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ya see, back in my day, we had a port called firewire. it was great until usb 3.0 came out. (im 13, i never lived with firewire)

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14 hours ago, Evanair said:

FireWire was nice in two specific aspects.  That internal port was a header, to allow you to connect to case front connectors. 

 

It could daisy chain, similar to Thunderbolt, so you didn't require a hub (also you couldn't use a hub).

 

It also had a sustained file transfer speed of 400mbps instead of a burst transfer like USB, which is why it was preferred for video work.

The case does have space for it on the front io it's just not hooked up 

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On 7/6/2017 at 5:55 AM, Sauron said:

It's firewire 400, that pc must be really old. The fact that we've come to the point where people don't recognize firewire makes me feel old too to be honest :P

i had to google what this '1394' tiny port on my laptop was

its firewire.

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Just now, NLD1st said:

Is that the same crap laptop you bent the heatpipe up to get the CPU out?

haha

 

 

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138 is a good number.

 

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