On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 07:09:56PM +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > The new zita1 will probably be a Fujitsu P510, one of the > reasons being that this is one of the few still having at > least one PCI slot, so I can still use my sound cards. Any > suggestions for alternatives are welcome !
If you wanted to go the AMD route, ASUS are still making some motherboards with 2 or more PCI slots. I'm still using Athlon64x2 CPUs on Asus M3A78-PRO boards (with ECC RAM) in my DAWs, but last time I checked there were still current boards with 3 PCI slots. Boards with 2xPCI are still fairly common. In general I prefer ECC memory, high efficiency CPUs and low-power graphics hardware for audio work. Keeping the power consumption down allows fan noise to be minimised. My location DAW can run fanless. I also prefer to run efficient software to keep CPU load (and heat) down. Thanks for writing such efficient software BTW :-) John _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
