Small form-factor PCI cards for interface

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2 total messages Started by Dtube Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:24

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Author: Dtube
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:24

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Hi all. My primary editing machine died over the weekend. The computer shop set me up with a replacement desktop that is actually a decent machine. BUT, it uses small form-factor PCI card slots. On my 2nd NIC card, I was able to remove the faceplate and make it work. But, my CardDeluxe is too tall. I need a new PCI interface card, but everything out there seems to use the tall faceplates. I'm using an external USB box (M-Audio Fast Track) to get by currently; but I really want a PCI card interface (external USB and FW boxes are fine for laptops - I've found PCI interfaces much more stable, though). Thanks!
-Darren

Re: Small form-factor PCI cards for interface

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Author: Runaway
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:02

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      FW boxes are fine for laptops




I use an RME Fireface 800 and for speed, reliability, connectivity, flexibility and a heap of other "ity"s I recommend it.

I will no doubt stand corrected but I'm pretty sure that you will find that it is also faster than PCI & PCI-e

Someone can check my logic but :
* PCI bandwidth - peak transfer rate of 133 MB per second for 32-bit bus width (33.33 MHz � 32 bits � 8 bits/byte = 133 MB/s)

* Firewire 800 is 800 Mbit/s

So theoretically 133x8 = 1064Mbit/s available over PCI.. so a PCI card "shouldnt" limit your firewire800 card...

* PCI-e 1x has 250Mbit/s of bandwidth so no worries with firewire800 being limited by that interface.

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