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2010/03/03 16:33:31 (permalink)

PCI USB card better?

I have a PCI  USB card and was wondering if anybody can advise if this would be better than using motherboard USB ports?

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    dmbaer
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    Re:PCI USB card better? 2010/03/03 18:12:28 (permalink)
    I have never seen anything suggesting that one  USB port location is better than the other.  If that were the case, you can be assured you'd routinely find advise on this forum that that's the type of port you should plug your USB MIDI into.  I've never once seen that suggestion made here.
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    Re:PCI USB card better? 2010/03/03 20:59:31 (permalink)
    I have a PCI USB card and was wondering if anybody can advise if this would be better than using motherboard USB ports?

     
    You'd gain nothing by doing so...
    Certainly no performance gain.

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    Re:PCI USB card better? 2010/03/04 13:18:28 (permalink)
    Nope no performance or reliability increase.

    Now firewire on the other hand .... VIA chipset anyone?


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    Re:PCI USB card better? 2010/03/04 18:00:03 (permalink)
    Thanks everyone, The reason I asked is it's what I have been using believing it's an upgrade from motherboard ports. I think I bought the card for an PC that had USB 1.1 to upgrade to 2. I have a PCI firewire card but its 10 years old so I imagine outdated. Soon we will have USB 3 to deal with.
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    Re:PCI USB card better? 2010/03/04 18:06:57 (permalink)
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    Thanks everyone, The reason I asked is it's what I have been using believing it's an upgrade from motherboard ports. I think I bought the card for an PC that had USB 1.1 to upgrade to 2. I have a PCI firewire card but its 10 years old so I imagine outdated. Soon we will have USB 3 to deal with.


    Be sure and check your bios settings to ensure the USB level doens't default to USB 1.x.  Depending on how old your MB and bios version is, that could be a possibility.  Even if the new card is 2.0, a bios setting could restrain it to using 1.x.  At least I ran into something like that a couple of years ago.
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    Re:PCI USB card better? 2010/03/04 19:03:14 (permalink)
    Ya, that happened once, No this is a 2007 AMD 64 2.2mhz dual core and it has 4 USB ports all 2.0 I just had the card kicking around so I stuck it in there hoping for a fix. Its the whole stupid computer is el cheapo, my son gave it to me out of pity cause I was using a p4. I get his hand me downs. I'm lusting after a i7. Just the wife looks at the Visa bill so I need cash.. need more gigs that pay,,,
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    Re:PCI USB card better? 2010/03/05 18:10:51 (permalink)
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    Ya, that happened once, No this is a 2007 AMD 64 2.2mhz dual core and it has 4 USB ports all 2.0 I just had the card kicking around so I stuck it in there hoping for a fix. Its the whole stupid computer is el cheapo, my son gave it to me out of pity cause I was using a p4. I get his hand me downs. I'm lusting after a i7. Just the wife looks at the Visa bill so I need cash.. need more gigs that pay,,,


    Seems to me its time to bribe your kid for a new ... ahem ... hand-me-down. 
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    Re:PCI USB card better? 2010/03/06 17:05:25 (permalink)
    you got that right, His desktop right now is a quad core ?? 4 Gig of RAM it looks like a home stereo component, water cooled... I'm patient..
    He has wasted to much money on laptops lately, Bought a Dell that will work perfectly for everything but DAW, couldn't get his money back because that's impossible to explain to the people at Dell,

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