Merry Christmas and a happy, successful New Year to you all>!!!
I have a question: is there something like a quality external video card ( e.g. USB/FW connection )?
I am tired of squeezing cards in/on new MoBos ( Int 2011 socket, yeahhh!). With the grafic cards getting bigger and using mostly 2 slots, it really gets cramped on the PCI area and I don’t want any Magma chassis and sorts just for 1 or 2 extra slots…
Completely stupid that they don’t build wider MoBos. There is usually more than enough space in a Midi Tower case.
But the mechanical side of PCs ( think late 80s: slots, sockets, cases, screws, mounting brakes, etc. ) was always neglected and constructed rather brainlessly… Any precision mechanik could have designed and built better better ones…
Big K ( smelling another cup of Gluehwein and cookies comming on… What might be under the tree for me this year?? )
Well, “typical” users will not need that much cards anymore - remember old days… SCSI card, Soundcard, maybe ISDN, USB, Firewire - today everything what you (as a consumer) will ever need is onboard. Only thing people need are fast gaming mega grafic cards.
But we have as well:
1-3 soundcards
1-4 DSP cards
in my case an USB3 card as well
I spent lots of cash to have a single grafic card with 4 outs - everyone recommended to just use 2 dual head. But then, whats up with the UAD Quad? The RME Raydat?
Fortunately my board has still a 32bit PCI slot, so it is no problem to use that old magma chassis holding 3x UAD1 and 2x PoCo PCI…
Hehehe…
You sing the old elegy of studio DAW owners…
"Show me the way to the last PCI slot…LOL…
Thank goodness there is a PCI slot even on the very last ASUS P9 2011 Socket board.
Since I don’t use it that often, anyway, I have now auctioned a PoCo FW and that gives me a free PCIe space, now.
…and a second PoCo card on the shelf…
Still, prety cramped in the box…
Am I allowed to ask what the price of used PoCo Firewires are these days?
As I am upset with TC that these concept is discontinued and I would not spend more money here I thought recently to buy a “spare” PoCo Firewire - my unit is from day one and usually not recognized in Win after boot-up. It will depend on the price, maybe these units will be sold cheap - then it might be a good idea to get one, even if you know that you might not be able to use it in 5 years.