What is the smallest PC I can get with 2 PCI slots working for 1 x Pulsar II & 1X Pulsar I card? Nice would be 4 PCI slots, but 2 would be enough.
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Smallest PC for 2 or 3 PCI cards Pulsar II & I
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Re: Smallest PC for 2 or 3 PCI cards Pulsar II & I
No such thing when using multiple 32bit PCI slots.
However a Corsair C70 Case with an ASRock IMB-781 4 x PCI would be excellent.
Make sure to remove all hard drive cages and use the 5.25 Drive bays for SSD/HDD and CD/DVD.
However a Corsair C70 Case with an ASRock IMB-781 4 x PCI would be excellent.
Make sure to remove all hard drive cages and use the 5.25 Drive bays for SSD/HDD and CD/DVD.
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Re: Smallest PC for 2 or 3 PCI cards Pulsar II & I
Thanks, that will bring no big advantage. I'll leave the cards where they are.
I remember back in 1999 I had such a nice & small computer for these Cards, but it was a Pentium 133 with 64 MB Ram
The Exsys box was so tempting and it was great to see Scope on the laptop Monitor... but it simply was not reliable. Could it be a problem with my X64 Notebook? Are the X64 drivers working? I will send the Exsys PCIe-PCI box back today...
I remember back in 1999 I had such a nice & small computer for these Cards, but it was a Pentium 133 with 64 MB Ram
The Exsys box was so tempting and it was great to see Scope on the laptop Monitor... but it simply was not reliable. Could it be a problem with my X64 Notebook? Are the X64 drivers working? I will send the Exsys PCIe-PCI box back today...
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Re: Smallest PC for 2 or 3 PCI cards Pulsar II & I
those boxes(Exsys) just don't work well for this purpose.
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Re: Smallest PC for 2 or 3 PCI cards Pulsar II & I
the magma boxes are reliable. not the same performance as on the internal PCI, but still quite good and stable, at least from my experience.
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Re: Smallest PC for 2 or 3 PCI cards Pulsar II & I
yes, and almost as expensive as an XITE-1 when new...
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Re: Smallest PC for 2 or 3 PCI cards Pulsar II & I
true... but can be had for cheap now, I guess there's not much demand for PCI boxes anymore.
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Re: Smallest PC for 2 or 3 PCI cards Pulsar II & I
Personally I'd be more concerned about the reliability of such ancient technology and build for a long life cycle.
Those cards won't die for at least 5 more years, by then motherboards with Terabytes of RAM and Windows 17 will allow us to have God look over our information in the cloud above.
Those cards won't die for at least 5 more years, by then motherboards with Terabytes of RAM and Windows 17 will allow us to have God look over our information in the cloud above.