Greetings and thank you in advance!
I'm finally in the process of switching from LE to an HD3 system. I had originally inteded to use a loaded expansion rack in my current PC but after careful consideration I felt the Omni is just about the perfect interface for my application & support for the chassis' stopped right before Omni support started the plan got revised a bit
I've been running 8 LE on my Tyan S2877 mobo w/ XP which I built from suggestions here back in 2007 or 2008.& thats been an excellent system sincne day 1. I'd use this same PC for the HD except I've read there are issues caused by a PCI-E slot between the first & second PCI slots. I'd also prefer to keep the LE system complete in another room but thats not nearly as important as getting this upgrade done. .
So the hunt begins for a used PC thats blessed with a bunch of PCI slots & preferably runs windows 7 though XP would be fine too. .
Any thoughts or suggestions ? I do not want to build a new PC for this. as I will probably be in a position to move up to HDX within the next 18 months. I already have an HD core with 4 Accel cards (PCI) the HD Omni. I think the only pieces I'm lacking at the moment is a digilink cable and a plan for what computer to install the cards in.
Another option I considered on my current PC was the possibility of a longer TDM flex cable to join the cards that would have the PCI-E slot between them. I have the ability to build those cables in any length or simply fab a junction to use two cables but that also assumes there are no electronic issues with the layout of the Tyan S2877's slots.
Thank You! Any help is greatly appreciated!
I'm finally in the process of switching from LE to an HD3 system. I had originally inteded to use a loaded expansion rack in my current PC but after careful consideration I felt the Omni is just about the perfect interface for my application & support for the chassis' stopped right before Omni support started the plan got revised a bit
I've been running 8 LE on my Tyan S2877 mobo w/ XP which I built from suggestions here back in 2007 or 2008.& thats been an excellent system sincne day 1. I'd use this same PC for the HD except I've read there are issues caused by a PCI-E slot between the first & second PCI slots. I'd also prefer to keep the LE system complete in another room but thats not nearly as important as getting this upgrade done. .
So the hunt begins for a used PC thats blessed with a bunch of PCI slots & preferably runs windows 7 though XP would be fine too. .
Any thoughts or suggestions ? I do not want to build a new PC for this. as I will probably be in a position to move up to HDX within the next 18 months. I already have an HD core with 4 Accel cards (PCI) the HD Omni. I think the only pieces I'm lacking at the moment is a digilink cable and a plan for what computer to install the cards in.
Another option I considered on my current PC was the possibility of a longer TDM flex cable to join the cards that would have the PCI-E slot between them. I have the ability to build those cables in any length or simply fab a junction to use two cables but that also assumes there are no electronic issues with the layout of the Tyan S2877's slots.
Thank You! Any help is greatly appreciated!
PC Suggestions for HD# PCI & Omni combo
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