Old Cards - New PC Recommendations

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Old Cards - New PC Recommendations

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Hi Guys,

I have decided to TRY and dust off my old 6dsp and 3dsp cards. However I have not owned a PC for a long time so do not really know if it would be possible to get these cards to work in a new PC ? Can anyone recommend a newish PC setup (mobo , processor etc) that would enable me to run these old cards again? The last version of scope I had registered was V3.5 .

Thank you in advance
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i5 or i7 with an MSI, Asus or Gigabyte socket 1150 motherboard.
no problem...
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Firstly you should upgrade to Scope 5.1. I am running a Pulsar 2 and two Luna 2's on a one year old motherboard and CPU . ASUS Z87C + I4790 CPU.
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Hi Guys,

Thanks for the replies, are there any prebuilt pc's that you could recommend as I don't really fancy building a machine - Im running Ableton 9 mainly using waves and native instruments plugins so i would need a machine powerful enough to handle 24-48 track projects.

Thanks again
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Don't yo have PC outlets that build to spec ? That's how I buy.
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Its something that I'm going to look into. Ive been on macbook for the last 10 years so I really wouldn't know where to start with a modern PC build. Time to start reading up I think !!
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it's very easy.
i'd be happy to help, but not through typing... :)
pm me if you need help.
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Prebuilt PCs probably don't have enough slots. They're not very expandable.

I would custom build, it's easy to put together. You can probably youtube it.

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Best thing to do really is order the custom parts and drop it off at a repair shop.
Just tell them to piece it together and install Windows.
In Nashville their dozens of these places and my guy does it for 90 bucks and gives you 90 days on a return, but they always work.

Here's a good Industrial Strength board that Scope DSP Card a guy I know from Vegas uses to play out with.

http://www.asrock.com/ipc/overview.asp?Model=IMB-781
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Well DawMan u were the first 2 mentioned the Z87C http://forums.planetz.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=32004 so that's why I got it. But Asrock got it too so go 4 it !!
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I've got a "Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3-B3, Intel Z68" mobo which has PCI slots which my 2x Pulsar II cards are plugged into.

Has the more modern PCIe (for gfx and such) also. Supports modern (i3|5|7) Intel CPUs.

I bought it a bit longer ago than I remembered (1st Nov 2011 apparently), but I'm sure that you can still get motherboards which support PCI.

[edit]

Did a bit of searching and wotnot:

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z77%20Extreme4/
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/B85PRO/gallery/
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/produc ... id=4516#ov
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/produc ... id=4519#ov
https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z87PLUS/
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BTW, Asus Z87-k works very well with 3 pro cards. They're good boards and cheap.

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B75 B77 chispet
(with native pci) not legacy pci bridged on pci-express bus! like the z68
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tlaskows wrote:BTW, Asus Z87-k works very well with 3 pro cards. They're good boards and cheap.

-Tom
yes z87 is ok
this model had native pci port
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m.my91 wrote:
tlaskows wrote:BTW, Asus Z87-k works very well with 3 pro cards. They're good boards and cheap.

-Tom
yes z87 is ok
this model had native pci port
Yep, I gave one away on here :lol:

-Tom
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Z97 works well too, even without native chipset PCI support.
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garyb wrote:Z97 works well too, even without native chipset PCI support.
i have tried Z68 chipset (no native pci)
"pci overload everytimes"
and i'am talking about pulsar 2 or scope 15 dsp not xite!
because i don't see any legacy pci on z97 motherboard!
the native legacy pci is only use by old pci card not xite who work with pci-e bus!*
we don't talk about the same thongs gary!
telling is a thing test is an other.....
experience destroyed all concept...
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tlaskows wrote:
m.my91 wrote:
tlaskows wrote:BTW, Asus Z87-k works very well with 3 pro cards. They're good boards and cheap.

-Tom
yes z87 is ok
this model had native pci port
Yep, I gave one away on here :lol:

-Tom
i don't see any legacy pci 32 bit port in z87?
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whatever.
there are people all over the world having success with Z97.
except for a couple of bad motherboards (which when replaced with a new board that wasn't defective worked), all the Z97 systems that i know of have worked VERY well.

*edit* yes, Z87 work well, too.
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garyb wrote:whatever.
there are people all over the world having success with Z97.
except for a couple of bad motherboards (which when replaced with a new board that wasn't defective worked), all the Z97 systems that i know of have worked VERY well.

*edit* yes, Z87 work well, too.
STOP UNDERSTANDING JUST WHAT YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND GARY YOU BORING ME OK!
I AM TALKING ABOUT OLD PCI CARD!(PULSAR 2 PULSAR SCOPE PRO 15 dsp)
YOU CANNOT INSTALL A LEGACY PCI LIKE PULSAR 2 ON A Z97 MOTHERBOARD BECAUSE THERE IS NOT PHYSICAL LEGACY PCI PORT ON THE Z97 MOTHERBOARD!
SO THERE IS NO "NATIVE LEGACY PCI" ON Z97 BECAUSE THERE'S NO LECACY PCI PORT ON IT!!!!
https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P8B75M/
AN EXAMPLE OF NATIVE LEGACY PCI FOR OLD CREAMWARE PCI CARD.
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