Re: [LAU] howto get pcmcia firewire card working

On Fri, 27 Jun 2014, david wrote: My experience was not the same... but my laptop is atom powered. I used as much of what I already had in my upgrade as I could. What I was spending already felt extravagant at the time. But I could still change out the PS without too much hurt and I may. At least there is a door between the computer and any mic. That is not true at all. Please feel free to send your cards here :) (well one of them) One of the things I made sure on my new MB was to have PCI slots. I have three PCI slots and use two, one for a d66 and I have an old pciaudio that I use for the MIDI port. There were actually quite a selection of MB with 3 pci slots and a lot more with 1 and 2. If I wanted to set up a xeon powered board. Then pci slots are harder to find. However the cost of board, cpu(s), case, ps and memory would make the cost of a new Audio Science PCIe card seem ok. In other words they are a different playing field. In my range the i5 CPUs are the best for audio. Only buy an i7 if you also do a lot of video or games, but for low latency audio you would want to turn off it's i7-ness and use it like an i5 anyway. You are in luck then. Any unused stuff at our church is unused for good reason... and some of the stuff we do use makes me shudder. I am just now on the hunt for a new mixing board (mixing desk is beyond my means) to replace the http://www.long-mcquade.com/64/Pro_Audio_Recording/Mixers/Yorkville_Sound/M… rental that doesn't work worth anything. I am looking at the mackie, soundcraft and allen & heath stuff (16 to 24 ch) but we will probably be using the power amp from the above for now. -- Len Ovens www.ovenwerks.net