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

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2012-10-28 at 08:37 -0400, Paul Coccoli wrote:
> 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.

Are there cheap PCIe MIDI IO cards available? Soon or later I need to
get a new mobo and in addition to my PCIe sound card, I've got 2 Envy24
PCI cards used for MIDI. USB-MIDI is crap.