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Modern motherboard for original PCI HD Core and Process cards
Hi Everyone,
About 9 months ago I posted looking for help building a modern computer with all the latest and greatest but still able to support my original PCI HD Core and Process cards built in 2002. Now it looks like I will be able to do this in the next 3 to 4 months so I wanted to get some current ideas and feedback. I talked to AVID at NAB and they said it should work fine with PT 9 and Windows 7 once I can find a motherboard with two legacy PCI slots next to each other that can accept two full length cards. If I can find a motherboard that supports the cards and has all the modern stuff like PCIe, current ram / cpu technology, SATA II etc... I can build the computer around that. Any suggestions on motherboards to look at? Thanks, David |
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Re: Modern motherboard for original PCI HD Core and Process cards
Adjacent PCI slots are no longer necessary. I have a solution. Contact me directly if interested. My contact info is in my public profile here.
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Re: Modern motherboard for original PCI HD Core and Process cards
Hey David,
I'm using this one : GIGABYTE GA-P55-UD3L Not easily available, found mine on ebay, have seen a few others. On the plus side, it has 4 PCI slots and 3 PCIe, Sata and supports an Intel I7. On the minus side, the MB requires a bit of modification to get the PCI cards to fit. (Dremel tool to the rescue) Also, no USB3 and no on-board Firewire. I've added a FW card to the system, only good for transferring files, can't run a session off it yet. I'll continue to trouble shoot that. For now, my HD3 Accel lives on, running great PT9 HD on Win 7. I'll likely add a fourth Accel card. I do miss my Mac but getting this rig operational has been worthwhile. good luck |
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Re: Modern motherboard for original PCI HD Core and Process cards
Thanks for the MB suggestion. Using the Dremel sounds risky and ideally I would like to avoid that.
Aren't there any brand new boards I can buy that will do this? |
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Re: Modern motherboard for original PCI HD Core and Process cards
Supermicro X8SAX, our HD3 PCI system runs great with this motherboard.
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Re: Modern motherboard for original PCI HD Core and Process cards
Thanks Third Eye, that looks promising. I'm not quite sure how you got 3 PCI cards in there because at least the picture on the manufacturer's website:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/m.../X58/X8SAX.cfm only shows 2 slots that I believe the cards would fit in. Listed in the specs are 1 32bit PCI slot and 2 64 bit PCI-X slots. I have 2 PCI cards that are not PCI-X although I am hearing from multiple people that my cards will work in a PCI-X slot. I will do more research to understand the differences between PCI and PCI-X. Thank you everyone for your thoughts! |
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Re: Modern motherboard for original PCI HD Core and Process cards
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Did you have to dremel your motherboard or you core/process card. |
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Re: Modern motherboard for original PCI HD Core and Process cards
If you want a modern motherboard (1155 socket) for PCI Protools you need they to include Q67, Q65, B65 or C20x chipsets. They are the only one with REAL pci support, all others have pcie to pci bridges which makes Protools cards not to work.
So far these are the only motherboards suitables for such task: Possible Protools HD PCI candidates: Gigabyte GA-Q67M-D2H-B3: 2 pci slots, Core i7 CPU's: $150 Asus P8Q67-M DO REV 3.0: 2 pci slots, Core i7 CPU's: $150 Supermicro X9SCA: 3 pci slots, Xeon CPU's (might work with normal i7) : $195 ASUS P8B-C/4L: 5 pci slots, Xeon CPU's (might work with normal i7): $200 All of them have native pci support, but it's not clear wether the Supermicro X9SCA and ASUS P8B-C/4L are using B3 revisions (bugfree) chipsets. On the other hand Gigabyte is known for it's almost out of the box OS X compability. So for a HD2 system, it may be the best option. |
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Re: Modern motherboard for original PCI HD Core and Process cards
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