PCI-E soundcards

[KinesongPayaso]

are there such a thing? is there one in the making?
I only have 2 PCI slots free, and I won't use them, as they will block my GPU fan.

 

[Gonz]

I haven't seen one yet.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Creative "As far as PCI Express (PCIe) is concerned, which is the next bus, what we found is that the performance of PCIe is truly bad for audio. We are seeing four times degradation on the bus for audio. PCIe is designed for graphics and high data transfer, but audio sends very small packets and the overhead can be very big! Moving the data across PCIe is much, much higher than PCI. So what we have to do is go back to the drawing board and work on the transport part of the chip and re-design it to add more silicon to overcome some of the problems we had with PCIe. So for us to come up with a PCIe solution is going to take a while because we have to overcome the problems we're facing with that bus."

 

[jiiteepee]

ESI MaXiO XD/032 announced a PCI-e Host card nearly a year time already (though, not seen one yet in sale).
Also,
http://www.lynxstudio.com/pr20070118b.html
http://www.proaudio.de/news/beitraege/2007_01-16.html
https://www.motu.com/store_products/upgrades/pcie-424

NOTE: These all are pro-level recording devices (not gaming cards as what Creative SB department builds).

jiitee

 

[JSTpt1022]

Mobo makers are really starting to skimp on the pci slots. I see motherboards with 4 pci-e slots and ONE pci slot coming out lately. Now, I know that these are gaming motherboards for multiple gpus and blah blah, but it is a growing trend and it's one that concerns me. There are plenty of devices still using pci slots that have no reason what so ever to change...ok I'm done...

 

[db597]

There was a demo last month at which Creative showed a prototype PCI-E X-Fi. Shouldn't be too long now before they appear.

 

[AgentVX]

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSTpt1022 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Mobo makers are really starting to skimp on the pci slots. I see motherboards with 4 pci-e slots and ONE pci slot coming out lately. Now, I know that these are gaming motherboards for multiple gpus and blah blah, but it is a growing trend and it's one that concerns me. There are plenty of devices still using pci slots that have no reason what so ever to change...ok I'm done...

IMO there seem to be 2 concurrent trends. One is towards the multiple PCI-E slots for graphics cards (targetted at gamers and hardware nuts), but on the other side you have motherboard manufacturers who are beginning to realise that people find legacy PCI slots more useful than the small PCI-E x1/x4 slots. Cases in point...DFI ICFX3200 T2R/G, Asus P5B series, Gigabyte 965P-DS3, etc. (all have 3 PCI slots)

 

[ShadowVlican]

sure sucks to be living within a transition period eh (PCI->PCI-E)

 

[RasmusseN]

I saw a picture of creatives PCI-e card ( not released yet ) I think it was based off the X-Fi

 

[justin2net]

yes. creative had a card @ ces 07. its pcie.
at first, they said they wouldnt release one because of the latency involved with the pcie bus. but now they have.

 

[HFS1986]

There is a PCIe card available. Unfortunately it comes at a price. MOTU's new 424 PCIe card which is designed to drive their HD192 external interfaces.

Will cost Arround £1400 though.

 

[Behemot]

Quote:

Originally Posted by RasmusseN /img/forum/go_quote.gif I saw a picture of creatives PCI-e card ( not released yet ) I think it was based off the X-Fi

Is this the card you mean:

image taken from:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multime...111140528.html
News that is 6 months old I wonder what happened to this card?

 

[badpenny]

LOL, my Mac doesn't even have a PCI slot.. it has like 30 PCI-e slots... Actually... more like 4.

 

[TheVinylRipper]

I just put together a "new" computer using an old ATX aluminum case I had laying around.

Elitegroup PT890T-A mobo, with 1xPCIe x 16, 1xPCIe X1, 4xPCI slots.

Got mobo with Pentium D 805 processor (dual core) and 512 k 533 mHz ram all for just over $100 shipped.

It would be cheaper to upgrade the mobo than to buy a PCIe soundcard, I suspect.

Well, after looking I see they do not sell that particular combo any more..

Mobo combos.

 

[Gatticus]

I kind of question if Creative was just saying that as an excuse as to why they don't have PCI-E soundcards out yet. If what they say is true then why are they designing one at all? It's my understanding that PCI-E is better because each card has it's own data bus and doesn't share like PCI does. Creative soundcards have caused issues in the past due to PCI cards sharing the bus. Something like that anyway. I was just researching buying a PCI-E TV Tuner card and that is why they said PCI-E is better for multimedia cards.

 

[edb]

RME 9632 has a PCI-E version released recently.