miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
I've had to deal with this myself when I wanted to upgrade my old Dell box, since my A/D converter boxes all use cards that fit the old/original PCI slots....same as your Delta converter.
Plus....I have 3 converter boxes and need 3 PCI cards...so while you can find newer towers with maybe one PCI slot on the MOBO, it's pretty much impossible to find a newer one with 3 PCI slots.
My solution....eBay.
I found an older (but newer than what I had) tower that came with 3 PCI slots. It's a Dell (so was my older one)...and I run 3 Layla24 boxes, plus I have SCSI drives (4 internal - 1 OS, 3 work). The tower is a dual Xeon 2.2 GHz with 4 GB ram.
Not a blazing machine by today's standards, but no slouch either.
I bought a complete back-up pile of parts for it....including a MOBO and power supplies, etc....and two 1.7 GHz Xeon CPUs....so I can basically keep it going for awhile.
The problem for me is that if I go with a new system, I automatically would have to buy 3 new converter boxes and new style extra drives....so I'm not upgrading anytime soon.
It's a 32 bit system....but I've got everything I need plug-in/app wise, and I'm not really missing anything I can see. Only downside is maybe trying to run crazy amount of plugs across multiple tracks in real time....but I don't do that, and I can easily work around that.
Plus....I have 3 converter boxes and need 3 PCI cards...so while you can find newer towers with maybe one PCI slot on the MOBO, it's pretty much impossible to find a newer one with 3 PCI slots.
My solution....eBay.
I found an older (but newer than what I had) tower that came with 3 PCI slots. It's a Dell (so was my older one)...and I run 3 Layla24 boxes, plus I have SCSI drives (4 internal - 1 OS, 3 work). The tower is a dual Xeon 2.2 GHz with 4 GB ram.
Not a blazing machine by today's standards, but no slouch either.
I bought a complete back-up pile of parts for it....including a MOBO and power supplies, etc....and two 1.7 GHz Xeon CPUs....so I can basically keep it going for awhile.
The problem for me is that if I go with a new system, I automatically would have to buy 3 new converter boxes and new style extra drives....so I'm not upgrading anytime soon.
It's a 32 bit system....but I've got everything I need plug-in/app wise, and I'm not really missing anything I can see. Only downside is maybe trying to run crazy amount of plugs across multiple tracks in real time....but I don't do that, and I can easily work around that.