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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Is there any way to have external PCI cards? Like a firewire or usb kit? I have an iMac DV and I could relaly use pci. Also, I was wondering if they had the same thing for ram, cause i'm out of slots! I know they are kind of outrageous questions but its worth the try...
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Not RAM.
You can get FireWire external PCI towers.
Not sure of any specific ones though - and I wouldn't think they'd be nearly as good as an internal one... wait a wihle and get a Tower when you can afford it...
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umm not on a Imac DV, I don't think you can get to the PCI bus.
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I'm pretty sure there are PCI towers that utilise the FireWire bus.
Doesn't make much sense to me either, but, I think they exist.
Of course the performance of high bandwidth devices would be sub optimal...
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blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion. the X makes it sound cool
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Originally posted by Cipher13:
I'm pretty sure there are PCI towers that utilise the FireWire bus.
Doesn't make much sense to me either, but, I think they exist.
Of course the performance of high bandwidth devices would be sub optimal...
You can't. Firewire has a really nice memory map I/O mode that would make it convenient, except that the drivers would be hideous, and the performance would be pathetic. The only thing that works mildly like that is there is a firewire to VMEbus expansion chassis, but VME is a heck of a lot slower than PCI.
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He can be fixed -- you can't.
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Unforutily it looks like they all need either a PCMCIA or PCI bus. Which neither the iMac or iBook has.
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