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Old 05-16-2010, 02:28 PM
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Default HD Core PCI-X in an i7 DAW

Since PCI-X Core cards are quite cheap on ebay nowadays, I've been wondering if those can be used on the latest Windows i7 machines? Or are they Mac only? My motherboard is Gigabyte EX58-UD4 with a few PCI slots. I suppose PCI-X cards are the same as PCI. Is one of these cards + 96 IO enough to have a working HD1 rig? Any advice / thoughts would be much appreciated.
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Old 05-16-2010, 03:03 PM
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Were using PCIX cards in our i7 rig. Works flawlessly!!
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Old 05-16-2010, 05:51 PM
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working great over here as well. i7 computer and older style expansion chassis with and HD accel 4.
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Old 05-16-2010, 10:42 PM
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Nice!
My motherboard has 2 x PCI slots so am I correct thinking that I can go up to HD2 without the need of any expansion chassis, or are you using the chassis for converting PCI-X to PCIe? That's the only bit I still don't quite understand. What's the expansion chassis for?
Thanks!
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Old 05-17-2010, 07:44 AM
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Nice!
My motherboard has 2 x PCI slots so am I correct thinking that I can go up to HD2 without the need of any expansion chassis, or are you using the chassis for converting PCI-X to PCIe? That's the only bit I still don't quite understand. What's the expansion chassis for?
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4 HD cards. All PCIx tho. i7 motherboards don't have 4 pcix slots together anymore
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Old 05-17-2010, 08:43 AM
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4 HD cards. All PCIx tho. i7 motherboards don't have 4 pcix slots together anymore
This one does!
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/M...ProductID=3347
(Gigabyte GA-P55-US3L)
Not sure about the card clearance though..

i'm opting for this for a 3 slot mobo fwiw
http://www.scan.co.uk/product.aspx?P...780&ms=msso094

a few on this board have success with this asus too..
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Asus-...rboard-LGA1156
although make sure it is the LE model as it has proper clearance for the 3 cards
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Old 08-15-2011, 02:33 AM
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Were using PCIX cards in our i7 rig. Works flawlessly!!
Im running the same as third eye he helped me with my build and it works great now. One thing i will say make sure you get a quite an expensive power supply i had aload of issuses and problems which we narrowed down to the power supply. My computer tech made me buy one that was way more powerful and a lot more expensive and now everything is working great and no more errors

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Old 08-18-2011, 08:09 PM
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Great news guys - thanks With the price of accel cards now it is a no brainer. Plus I am running out of IO and need a card to slap my apogee onto and get my lynx on a card per box to avoid the latency issues it dishes out when not in standard mode.

appreciate it!
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Old 08-19-2011, 10:25 AM
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HD4 in UD3l here as well. OSX runs ahem flawlessly on this board also...
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Old 08-21-2011, 07:25 PM
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hd4 in ud3l here as well. Osx runs ahem flawlessly on this board also...
watch your mouth!!!!
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