[LAU] OT: New i7 rig, Gfx card recomendations and more.

[Patrick Shirkey]

On Sun, October 28, 2012 9:18 am, Len Ovens wrote:
>
> On Sat, October 27, 2012 1:50 pm, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
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>>> PCI is dead,
>>
>> Alot of people would love to upgrade their older pci cards to new mobos.
>> It's becoming a real hassle to find boards that allow that.
>
> As an owner of an older PCI audio interface... I have been putting some
> thought to this. I remember that there was a time not too long ago when
> people were using old DX100s as routers. Boot from a floppy and run in
> memory (not much either), no drive, no fan in the PSU or on the CPU.
>
> Maybe instead of getting rid of the old MB... pull the graphics card
> (first thing to go anyway) Run a minimal linux (terminal only) that runs
> netjack. Now you have an ethernet sound interface. Plug into the new box
> (maybe on it's own NIC) and run netjack instead of jackd.
>

This is a proven method for building out a relatively cheap high
performance netjack cluster.

Taking it a step further it can also be used for rendering with blender
and cinelerra. In that case having the graphics card is also useful.


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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd