Is Firewire Gone?

j05e · 10 Oct 2012 at 09:14

Just bought a Gigabyte Z77 board but where is the firewire? I noticed that none of the Gigabyte Z77 boards have firewire?

stulid · 10 Oct 2012 at 09:28

Which exact board?

There maybe an internal IEEE 1394a header near the audio header.

Jokester · 10 Oct 2012 at 12:40

UD5 has a Firewire header.

mmj_uk · 10 Oct 2012 at 13:20

It's being phased out due to unpopularity I guess, you can pick up plenty of PCI-E cards.

m3csl2004 · 10 Oct 2012 at 13:24

Firewire needs to die, it's just too unreliable.

Gregster · 10 Oct 2012 at 15:21

m3csl2004 said:
Firewire needs to die, it's just too unreliable.

Firewire was awsome in XP between mine and my wifes computer. Swapping bigger files was so quick as opposed to normal networking.

HaloUK · 11 Oct 2012 at 12:24

I thought the same thing when I was installing the Z77 Sabertooth... where's the firewire port gone! You could always install a firewire card if you needed to use firewire but as most have said its being phased out due to faster, newer tech.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=49&subid=422

rishy · 11 Oct 2012 at 12:42

With USB2 and Esata Firewire had no chance, and now with USB3 you dont need it. I think that they only include it if people have got old devices, like on motherboards you still have a floppy connector but when was the last time you used a HD 1.44 MB floppy disk

ubersonic · 11 Oct 2012 at 13:33

rishy said:
With USB2 and Esata Firewire had no chance, and now with USB3 you dont need it. I think that they only include it if people have got old devices, like on motherboards you still have a floppy connector but when was the last time you used a HD 1.44 MB floppy disk

This really, Firewire has been dead in the water for ~ a decade now, aside from macs nobody really used it in a big way, some people do still use it and manufacturers still make some products but by the time it had picked up enough steam to overtake parallel and fight off USB 1.0/1.1 then USB 2.0 was on the scene and when FW800 came the only advantage it had over USB2.0 was for external HDD's and E-SATA was there to nullify that advantage.

Hopefully Thunderbolt won't suffer the same fate as it seems pretty cool, but for mainstream use its totally outclassed by USB 3.0.

InertProtocol · 11 Oct 2012 at 13:37

Awesome name, but yes it's had it's (very brief) day...

HaloUK · 12 Oct 2012 at 09:44

This Thunderbolt looks interesting. Upto 40gb sec... *raises eyebrow* not bad!

Hey, I cant help but think of the P-47 & A-10 American aircraft whenever I hear Thunderbolt mentioned.

j05e · 17 Oct 2012 at 10:24

My front panel firewire has no use though. May be they need to start phasing them out of front panel then.

nath247 · 18 Oct 2012 at 20:46

My 800D has a firewire port at the front, but the RIVE doesn't seem to have one.

Only firewire device I ever used was an old iPod I had.