Regular pci into a pci-expressX16 slot

[rjisinspired]

Is a pci-expressX16 slot backwards compatible with a regular pci card? Looks like I may need a firewire pci-express version if my existing firewire card, regular pci, isn't compatible. I found terminology of the types of cards but nothing on backwards compatibility, yet.

The ultrabox microfly case has a firewire connection on the front panel but the board doesn't have any firewire capability on its own.

Thanks.

Edited December 27, 2007 by rjisinspired

[rjisinspired]

Nope, the black slot isn't for a pci card. The instructions don't specify what it is for, a few items aren't documented in these instructions, lool. All it says is "No AGP"

I found a usb port on my camera but I know for certain the Sony ccd-trv280 camera came with no software for connecting up the unit to a computer. XP doesn't recognize it. I went to Sony's site but all there was was a program that writes to the camera, reverse of what I want to do. I can either take out the audio card in place of the firewire card or get a pci-express card. The second pci card is for ethernet so I can't disconnect that one.

The black slot is slightly longer than a pci slot by about a fraction of an inch. I'm still looking into what that slot is actually for.

[rjisinspired]

The other two slots are a pci x1 and a x16 slot. I was checking the prices and these cards are more expensive than the regular pci ones. I'll have to decide whether or not to keep the audigy card in or replace it with the firewire card I do have. I won't be dealing with music that much, mainly voice, evp. I might be able to get away with the onboard sound.

[fishman360]

Yes indeed you need to get a pci x1 or x16 card, but in fact if you don't need it for high qualith sound not fond of too much music, you can still can some good priced card, something like these:

Leadtek PX8500GT 512MB PCI-E x16 video card $63

BFG Geforce 8600 GT 256MB PCI Express x16 Video Card $100.

PNY VCG85512GXPB GeForce 8500GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 SLI Supported Video Card $75.

[rjisinspired]

Thanks fishman. I might get one of those down the line

I was able to find a usb driver for the digital8. I had to dig for it online. I have heard that USB transfer is not advised for video though after installing the driver components and doing the transfer I didn't get any loss of quality and no dropped frames. I was able to do 29.97 fps with no problem. Could it be because my computer is fast enough to handle the load? The CPU barely budged at all throughout the process going to 6% max.

Sample clip from the USB transfer 320X240. My server is slow in loading videos so it would be probably better to download them instead by right-clicking and saving:

Jeffrey, my cat.

http://rjschat.dyndns.org:8080/Up_close.wmv

Jeffrey eating like a pig. I used too much noise cleaning on this one. First half normal video, other half in infrared nightshot mode:

http://rjschat.dyndns.org:8080/hungry_man.wmv

My server is sometimes slow since Veri$son has a cap on upload bandwidth.

Edited December 29, 2007 by rjisinspired