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Re: [L-OT] Wheres the PCI slots?

2002-07-17 by Dennis Gunn

>  >   I currently house 2 audio cards, 1 sound card, 1 DV
>>card, 1 SCSI card and am now looking to purchase a VST
>>DSP card that will take up the sixth and final slot on
>  >my MOBO.
>
>are we talking mac here?
>
>if so on a current  g4 you would want to use the agp slot for
>monitor, built in firewire for dv
>
>scsi would be irrelevant - switch to firewire drives from built in
>
>which would leave 4 pci - 2 audio, 1 sound(whatever that is) and 1 dsp
>
>of course, you won't like this - but that is how I would do it on a g4

That's just about exactly what I was going to say.  In addition I 
would add that you may not want to stick with SCSI anymore either. 
Mac have two independent FireWire receptacles.  I recently got 120gig 
7200 rmp drive and a firewire case with a 911 Oxford chipset to put 
it in both for a little less than $300 US.   Although a super duper 
high end SCSI raid *might* be fast it kicks the ass of any SCSI rig 
*I* have used and its compact and hot plugable.  Whats more firewire 
2 is just about here and it's even twice as fast as SCSI 1.  So I 
really doubt that many people are going to be sticking with SCSI much 
longer.


BTW I too was wondering about the distinction between an audio and a 
"sound" card.

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