Go for a TI chipset on a PCIe card.

You are probably better shopping for this sort of thing on-line, when you can be reasonably certain of what you are buying and there is no salesman talking you into accepting a different type which he happens to have in stock.
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This [/]thread may help, although it was primarily about FW400.

UA recommends the Allegro FireWire 800 PCIe for the Apollo 16.
$69.95 plus shipping.

Edit: I see it has TI Chip as well. (y)

Sonnet's Allegro FireWire 800 PCIe features the fastest PCI Express to FireWire 800 controller available, the Texas Instruments XIO2213A

http://www.sonnettech.com/product/allegrofirewire800pcie.html

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audiokid, post: 422587, member: 1 wrote: UA recommends the Allegro FireWire 800 PCIe for the Apollo 16.
$69.95 plus shipping.

Edit: I see it has TI Chip as well. (y)

http://www.sonnettech.com/product/allegrofirewire800pcie.html

I went for the allegro, should arrive today.

installed. no muss, no fuss. Works. I am using it to connect my pc workstation to my Apollo Quad using the UAD firewire drivers. I am also able to connect the Apollo to my Mac Powerbook via the thunderbolt port using these same firewire drivers, but it is necessary to use a version 1 firewire card on the apollo - version 2 only supports thunderbolt drivers.