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Smallest PC for 2 or 3 PCI cards Pulsar II & I
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:08 am
by MCCY
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.
thanks
Martin
Re: Smallest PC for 2 or 3 PCI cards Pulsar II & I
Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 7:20 am
by dawman
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.
Re: Smallest PC for 2 or 3 PCI cards Pulsar II & I
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 3:48 am
by MCCY
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...
Re: Smallest PC for 2 or 3 PCI cards Pulsar II & I
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 9:14 am
by garyb
those boxes(Exsys) just don't work well for this purpose.
Re: Smallest PC for 2 or 3 PCI cards Pulsar II & I
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 9:42 am
by Tau
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.
Re: Smallest PC for 2 or 3 PCI cards Pulsar II & I
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 9:51 am
by garyb
yes, and almost as expensive as an XITE-1 when new...
Re: Smallest PC for 2 or 3 PCI cards Pulsar II & I
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 9:55 am
by Tau
true... but can be had for cheap now, I guess there's not much demand for PCI boxes anymore.
Re: Smallest PC for 2 or 3 PCI cards Pulsar II & I
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 11:34 am
by garyb
yeah...
Re: Smallest PC for 2 or 3 PCI cards Pulsar II & I
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 5:52 pm
by dawman
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.