What Firewire Do I Need?

Just purchased a 1360t desktop. I need a firewire port to download video from my camcorder. Anyone know what I need for this? Thanks in advance!
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All standard PCIe cards will fit on any standard PCIe slot. Your machine has 3 slots you can put in any one of them.
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