Compact Flash Reader slow

Before buying the new mac pro (2ghz with2 gigs of ram) I had the G4 mirror door, 1.25 ghz with 1.25 ram. I use the Delkin compact flash card reader, firewire. Last night was the first time I used the computer to download images from my digital camera. I thought to myself, this is really going to be a lot faster than on the G4, wrong! it seemed to take just as long as before, I am using a variety of cards, one of them is the Kingston Ultimate, 4 gigs, 133X. I tried with the reader connected to the firewire port on both the back and front of the computer, no difference. Should this card reader work faster on the new computer? Other question. I don't know if there are card readers that are USB 2, if so, would they be faster?
thanks

I think Barefeats took a look and reviewed some CF cards and readers, I think focusing on the FW800. But if I recall correctly, the FW800 product has been removed.
USB2 is going to be as slow or slower than FireWire.
Things that are faster, cpu, memory, drives, and PCIe.

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