Century Global has made ample provision, equipping the card with a 64 bit wide PCI interface. With 800 Mbps (or 100 MB/s when converted), 1394b just about reaches the limit as to which the PCI bus is capable of with the usual 32 bit and 33 MHz. In theory, this is up to 132 MB/s, in practice, however, this suffers due to the fact that the bus is used equally by all the connected devices. A sound card, the USB controller (mouse, keyboard, web cam, printer, scanner), a TV or video editing card - all of these gobble up bandwidth. The theoretical maximum rate is only attained in isolated cases.

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