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| ed12:
try here startech.com personally i run 5 of there card's pcmia never a hick-up ed |
| yotsuya:
--- Quote from: jaharr01 on July 05, 2014, 10:06:16 pm ---oh Yotsuya, You just have to be different don't you. Jay --- End quote --- Jay- A pci card means 1 less power outlet and 1 less USB cable that I have to deal with. :cheers: |
| Nephasth:
PCI card all the way! |
| dkersten:
I have wondered if you use a hub for multiple devices if you will run into a problem with interrupts and too many inputs at once, or even use up the bandwidth of the bus. Most computers these days have two or three USB controllers with 2 ports on each, so if you spread out your devices across multiple controllers, there is less going on with one controller, whereas with a hub you are running all those devices on one interrupt and one controller chip. I always just figured it was good practice to spread things out, so I would add a PCIe card with another controller before using a hub, but that might not be necessary. Anyone here use a hub and tried to run a 4 player game where everyone is pressing multiple buttons at once to see if there is any conflicts or glitches? I am curious to know if the USB bus can handle 6 or 7 HID devices at once on one chain. I know that originally the USB (being serial) could theoretically handle 128 devices per chain, but I have run into problems with too many devices on one chain in the past which might have been a bandwidth limitation of the early USB formats. I have been looking for an answer to these questions for some time now. |
| Malenko:
if it was a laptop Id say go with a powered hub, but a desktop? No shame in getting a PCI card, as stated one less USB cord and one less power cord. |
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