Whats faster usb or pci? explain plz

[ozzy0627]

Hi I was just wondering which is faster usb or pci....if usb is faster how can you have pci cards that hold usb ports and those ports be as fast as a usb port on the motherboard....does anyone know???

Thanks Ron

[RainMaQer]

I believe PCI is faster... usb is under 10 megs per sec. whereas PCI is something like 100+... I think... don't quote me on the PCI speed... Anyway USB is slower than PCI... that I know:D

[Sonny]

USB = 12Mb/sec
PCI = not really sure but you do have NICs that are 10/100 so....

I'm sorry for the addded confusion but can someone give a concrete answer here:beer:

[RainMaQer]

Oops... I thought usb was only 1.5 or something:beer:

[William]

USB is 1.5MB/s or 12Mb/s, that is the same number. I would imagine PCI is a WHOLE lot faster, a parallel port is a tad faster than USB.

[Shadow ÒÓ]

parallel is slower...it's right above serial. next would be USB, then Firewire, then USB 2, then internal PCI, then AGP, then IDE, then SCSI

[Yodums]

PCI is defintely whole lot fastah!

[WillysNut]

PCI has/is a 32-bit data path, 33MHz clock speed and a maximum data transfer rate of 132MB/sec.

The 64-bit PCI bus doubles that speed to 264 MB/sec.

...yeah it is a whole lot fastah! :D

[ozzy0627]

Thanks for the input guys!