I bought this PCI Firewire card with Texas Instruments chipset to replace the one I had was equipped with a VIA chipset, whose driver was not compatible with my digital mixer (Alesis Multimix 16-FW). This PCI Firewire card with Texas Instruments chipset works perfectly, no more driver compatibility issues. Certainly it is not the cheapest in the market, but still worth the blow when it comes to connect FireWire equipment that costs an arm on his PC and have the best performance.