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On Sun, October 28, 2012 9:18 am, Len Ovens wrote:

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> On Sat, October 27, 2012 1:50 pm, Patrick Shirkey wrote:

>

>>> PCI is dead,

>>

>> Alot of people would love to upgrade their older pci cards to new mobos.

>> It's becoming a real hassle to find boards that allow that.

>

> As an owner of an older PCI audio interface... I have been putting some

> thought to this. I remember that there was a time not too long ago when

> people were using old DX100s as routers. Boot from a floppy and run in

> memory (not much either), no drive, no fan in the PSU or on the CPU.

>

> Maybe instead of getting rid of the old MB... pull the graphics card

> (first thing to go anyway) Run a minimal linux (terminal only) that runs

> netjack. Now you have an ethernet sound interface. Plug into the new box

> (maybe on it's own NIC) and run netjack instead of jackd.

>

This is a proven method for building out a relatively cheap high

performance netjack cluster.
Taking it a step further it can also be used for rendering with blender

and cinelerra. In that case having the graphics card is also useful.
--

Patrick Shirkey

Boost Hardware Ltd

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