[LAU] HW upgrade - new computer

[Len Ovens]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Raphaël Mouneyres wrote:

>> So far I am very happy with what I have seen. PCI is certainly not dead,
>> though it is getting harder to find. I could not find any Xeon boards with
>> PCI slots for example... even if I had wanted to pay the extra.
>
> In my company we have many Dell computers with Xeon processors and PCI slots.
> for examples models : Dell precision T3500, T1700, T3600
> As they are "professional" computer, high price comes with it. The
> latest models made by Dell still have one PCI slot.
> Could be found second hand I think.
>
Thank you. I wanted at least two slots, but preferably more so I could 
pick and choose what else is using the same irq. If money was no option... 
I would get such a system and add a new audio card to the mix. I would 
probably end up around 5K instead of < 1K.


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Len Ovens
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