28 Oct
2012
28 Oct
'12
1:37 p.m.
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote:
On Sun, October 28, 2012 9:18 am, Len Ovens 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.
On Sat, October 27, 2012 1:50 pm, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
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.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
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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.