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

[Paul Coccoli]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey at boosthardware.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, October 28, 2012 9:18 am, Len Ovens wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, October 27, 2012 1:50 pm, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>
>>>> 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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Surprisingly, the place I buy parts from has 22 Core i? motherboards
that range from 1-4 PCI slots and 20 new AMD A-Series (socket FM2).  I
was happy to see that, as I have to build a new system and I'd like to
use my old PCI Delta 66.

On a related note, does anyone have any experience with AMD A-series?
While I would like to support Intel, AMD seems a lot more
cost-effective, and the built-in graphics are better.