SIIG Firewire 800/400/USB PCI Card

• Conforms to PCI Specification, revision 2.3 and supports PC and Mac computers
• Universal PCI card design to work with 32-/64-bit, 3.3V/5V PCI and PCI-X slots
• Hot-swapping feature allows you to connect/disconnect devices without first powering system off
• Compliant with IEEE P1394b and backwards compatible with 1394a-2000 and 1394-1995 standards. Supports serial bus data rates of 800, 400, 200 and 100 Mbps
• Three FireWire ports: Two FireWire 800 (1 int/1 ext) and one FireWire 400 (ext)
• Compliant with USB specification, revision 2.0 and backwards compatible with revision 1.1. Supports data transfer rates of 480, 12 and 1.5 Mbps
• Provides five USB 2.0 ports (2 ext & 3 int). Built-in int. pin-out header can be used with front case ports, flash memory card readers, and other devices
• Works with a variety of FireWire 800/400 and USB 2.0/1.1 devices

• Mac:
• Power Mac G3 Blue&White or later with an available 64- or 32-bit PCI slot
• Mac OS 8.6 or later
• *Requires Mac OS X (v10.1.3) or later for USB 2.0 and Mac OS X (v10.2.4) or later for FireWire 800
• PC:
• Pentium or equivalent PC with an available PCI slot
• Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP/Server 2003

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Small Dog Review by: Keith at SmallDog on February 7th, 2005

This awesome card will give you the ability to use those hot off the shelf devices like DV camcorders, digital cameras, hard drives, printers & scanners while only occupying one valuable 32/64-bit PCI or PCI-X slot. This is key. As you very well know, space is a valuable commodity.

The external ports available on the Combo card are two USB 2.0 (backward compatible to USB 1.1), one firewire 400 & one firewire 800 port. Internally, it has one firewire 800 port & three USB 2.0 (pin-out headers can be used with front case ports & one standard USB port for flash memory card). The card was very easy to install in my G4/933MHz (OS v10.3) & required no driver. However, depending on your OS, you might require the latest driver <http://www.siig.com/driver.asp?pid=669>

The SIIG Combo card is the right price to add the high speed performance of both USB 2.0 & firewire 800 to your new or not so new PowerMac. If you need to breath new life into your G3 blue & white or want to add extra power to your G5 that even Steve McQueen would envy, this is your card.

I couldn't be happier with the SIIG card unless, it also made french toast & brewed a mean cup of joe for those sub-zero mornings here in Vermont.