Modern motherboard for original PCI HD Core and Process cards

[Third Eye Studios]

Originally Posted by David Sandwisch

Which CPU did you decide to go with?

i7 920. The components in the build are in my user profile.

[Halstein]

ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 (see profile). Moved my HD2 PCI-system from an old G5. Was sceptical to start using Win, but have to admit - it now works great...after some tweaking. Real powerhorse for a small cost. Just follow the Win 7 optimizations point-to-point. And be aware of possible name truncating when moving your Mac sessions to PC - manually relink audiofiles with unique ID only works.

[sean shannon]

I set up my system around the Intel H55HC motherboard with an i7 quad and 4G RAM. Works flawlessly. Modern, currently available, 3 adjacent PCI slots. No dremel necessary.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...7BBTkwCjCECjCE

[Raoul23]

Originally Posted by sean shannon

I set up my system around the Intel H55HC motherboard with an i7 quad and 4G RAM. Works flawlessly. Modern, currently available, 3 adjacent PCI slots. No dremel necessary.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...7BBTkwCjCECjCE

dude

i live in the uk im looking to build a hd3 rig PCI-X version. The mobo you suggest i cant seem to find, is it the same as the DH55HC version that one i can find

Thanks in advance

[sunburst79]

Originally Posted by Raoul23

dude

i live in the uk im looking to build a hd3 rig PCI-X version. The mobo you suggest i cant seem to find, is it the same as the DH55HC version that one i can find

Thanks in advance

Maybe post a link to what you can get....

[Raoul23]

Originally Posted by sunburst79

Maybe post a link to what you can get....

Cheers dude heres the link

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/INTEL-DH55HC-M...item20b7a10080

I dont wanna have to dremmel anything lol

[sunburst79]

Originally Posted by Raoul23

Cheers dude heres the link

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/INTEL-DH55HC-M...item20b7a10080

I dont wanna have to dremmel anything lol

You might check with the seller as to the difference between the D and the H prefix. Or Intel.com. A cursory glance but they look the same to me. Most of the Intel Chipsets are about the same as far as compatibility goes. In this case your really just looking for slot clearance.

Dude the Dremel is the best part!

EDIT: Its the same board. The TigerDirect listing dropped the "D" . If you look at the actual model number its DH55HC.

[sean shannon]

Originally Posted by Raoul23

The mobo you suggest i cant seem to find, is it the same as the DH55HC version that one i can find

Yes, that is the one! Works well for PTHD PCI cards. You will notice that it does not have a firewire port, so I added a PCIe firewire card, and we're good! I put mine in a large rack case. Also, I added a video card because Win 7 needed it. It has been running smoothly the whole time.

[Raoul23]

Originally Posted by sean shannon

Yes, that is the one! Works well for PTHD PCI cards. You will notice that it does not have a firewire port, so I added a PCIe firewire card, and we're good! I put mine in a large rack case. Also, I added a video card because Win 7 needed it. It has been running smoothly the whole time.

Cheers dude i better lay some cash out for this then

Thanks again

[dopplah]

I've built both the Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3L and the Intel H55HC, each with an i7 870, and each have successfully run Pro Tools. I had to use an ATI chipset graphics card (despite the fact that only Nvidea is "Avid approved").

However, NEITHER will allow a Mojo to export video through the FireWire port. On the Gigabyte it returns a "Overloading CPU... Error -6031" error anytime the Mojo is plugged in. Regardless of video in the session or not. Regardless of driver status (modern vs. 'legacy').

The Intel doesn't have an onboard FireWire port, so I purchased the Avid approved SIIG PCIe to 1394 card. The Intel doesn't return -6031 errors-- but it also doesn't output video via FireWire. With modern drivers it won't allow Pro Tools to fully boot up, returning "Could not complete your request because The media is write protected (19) ." Whatever that means! Legacy drivers are required to even get video to even consider initializing. Eventually I was able to output stuttered & delayed video but now I can't even manage to do that.

FireWire works fine for an external hard drive, but not for real-time video output.

If you don't need to run video ON AN AVID PERIPHERAL (!) either works very well.

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dopplah