Scope family board size/length ?

HUROLURA · Post by **HUROLURA** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 2:38 pm

Just a stupid question (stupid until you have to fit one of those board in a PC with its constraints): what are the lenght of the different Scope familly board (in increasing order I guess) ?

1 ) Scope Luna/Home (3 DSP) ? ~19 cm

2 ) Pulsar I SRB (4 DSP) ?

3 ) Pulsar I (4 DSP) ? ~22.5 cm

4) Pulsar II / Scope Project (6 DSP) ? 25,7cm

5) Scope Professionnal (14/15 DSP) : 31.2 cm/ ~33cm

This would help me to decide how to expand my setup without being forced to change my PC...

HUROLURA · Post by **HUROLURA** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 2:57 pm

This gives me an idea about the Home and Pro cards but what about the others ?

HUROLURA · Post by **HUROLURA** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:44 am

Thanks Stardust ...

I just miss the Pulsar I SRB size which appears to be shorter than the Pulsar I (from some pictures I have seen on the web). Maybe the Scope home size ?

I edited my first post so that the informations already found would be available for anybody looking for this kind of info later ...

CheerZ

johnbowen · Post by **johnbowen** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:52 pm

Another BTW - while I was at Sonic Core last month, I used their Magma 2 PCI expansion box with my laptop to work on my copy of Scope DP. The card I used was a 6 dsp Pulsar II card, as the bigger Scope board was just a little bit too long, it seemed. (I tried loading the Scope SDK, but it wouldn't work with the Pulsar II card.)
However, when I got back home, I purchased a brand new Magma 2 PCI from eBay (got a great deal - $255!!). When I tried my 14-chip Expander board (Scope board without the Audio I/O daughter card), it fit perfectly! I managed to get my other Pulsar I board in there as well, connected to the bigger board. 18 DSPs all running on my laptop - great to finally have a roadable system for developing!

-jb

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:26 pm

does this type of thing cause any asio latency or problems loading at all? it seems like a good way to get away from worrying about motherboards and stuff.

johnbowen · Post by **johnbowen** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:33 pm

I don't know, because I don't use asio, and I'm not loading/unloading lots of projects and so on...I'm just working in a very simplified setup.

-john b

Post by **garyb** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:03 pm

no, a magma doesn't necessarily make more latency, but it does affect the available pci bandwidth to some extent, certainly not beyond usefulness....

kylie · Post by **kylie** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:45 pm

garyb wrote:no, a magma doesn't necessarily make more latency, but it does affect the available pci bandwidth to some extent, certainly not beyond usefulness....

while you mention it... has anybody tried a magma with the pci-e x1 card yet? not that I don't expect it to works, but maybe using the pci-e bus has some more positive effect on the bandwith... ?!
I would serve as an early adopter, but the card is quite expensive, and I definitely would have to do an inquiry to magma before buying whether my chassis is supposed to work with it or not...

-greetings, markus-

Post by **garyb** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:51 pm

that's been the theory, i thought someone had tried a pci-e adaptor with decent results...maybe not...