Re: PCI1 and new motherboards - a tip

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On Sun, 24 May 2015, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:

I'm in the process of upgrading my computer HW, but still want to use my old trusted M-Audio delta 1010 cards. Two times, I have had to buy a motherboard with old PCI ports, or that is what I have believed for some years. Today I found this on the 'Net:

 http://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/Slot-Extension/PCI-Express-to-PCI-Adapter-Card~PEX1PCI1

I have one sitting here that I have not used. I do want to try it out (on a sound card I don't care about) but have not got to it. I would have to do some metalwork to get it to fit, but that is ok, I have lots of old pc case parts laying around. However, I found it not that hard to find new motherboards with up to 3 PCI slots. (mine also has 4 PCIe slots) I have read reports of these adapters damaging the card it is hosting.

..and will probably find more if I dig further. After overlooking this kind of solutions for years, and also seeing this topic coming up at this list for years, I feel a little stupid. :-)

It is not foolproof, native PCI slots are worth looking for. Mounting solutions have to be found as the little PCIe slot is not up to the weight of a sound card in a tower case. Holes have to be made for s/pdif (I do use mine).

In looking for HW, I first chose my cpu. (i5 with 4 cores and no hyperthreads) Then I looked at the whole line of mother boards that supported the cpu socket. While there were lots of MB with 1 or two PCI slots, I looked for maximum and got three because I wanted to avoid whichever slot uses irq 16 and I have two audio cards. I looked for something that still has ps2 kb/mouse ports because I have USB audio I try out sometimes and the mouse can cause trouble (I think there are ways around this though and I might not be so picky next time). I also wanted at least two monitor outputs, but this is easy as many MB have three at least. Monitors are cheap ($90 at walmart) and double monitors for audio just seems the way to go. I would add, lots of USB ports, but all the MB have more than I need.

The one adaptor I did have to buy was a PATA card for my old HD and DVD burner. (the older HD just seem to keep on going, the newer ones have failed more often on me)

I have only 8GRAM and still never use the swap. I don't ever put the computer in sleep mode anyway, so I could probably run swapless. But will probably keep some around so long as I have rotary drives. SSD is the next thing for me I think. I would like to jump my RAM up to 32G and use part of it as compressed swap.

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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net

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