No more PCI slots....Now what?

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I was thinking about it...I haven't seen many mothers with more then 7 or so pci slots. I know some of us well them al up (I'm down to 2 left) Is their any way of adding more or are ther mother boards with a buch of them? I never say one. I always wondered why some custom cases have room for about 12 slots.
 
There are motherboards specifically designed for servers that have more than the 5 or 6 you see on consumer boards. But they are hugely expensive. But frankly I don't really see how you can fill up 6 PCI slots with all the onboard features that you'll find on motherboards nowadays. Unless you may be using like 3 RME cards side by side.
 
Even without onboard features: how did you use all those slots??? Just curious... sound, video, what else? :confused:
 
Possibilities:
LAN (but often onboard nowadays)
SCSI
extra (S)ATA controller
video capture card

But putting that all in one PC would make a pretty exotic machine.
 
christiaan said:
Possibilities:
LAN (but often onboard nowadays)
SCSI
extra (S)ATA controller
video capture card

But putting that all in one PC would make a pretty exotic machine.
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I've got six slots, all filled on my A7V600.

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Just kidding, I wish I had those. Actually, even that's probably overkill for what I do. :D

I really do have the Mia though!
 
Right now I'm runnin

Video Card
Sound Card
Aardvark Q10 card
soon to get raid 0 card

I just checked today to see how many I have and their's only 4! After I get my raid I'll be full. I think I'm going to get a new computer in maybe a few months or so. Maybe when their them blue laser dvd copiers. mmmmm
 
Well, with Pro Tools TDM you can just keep adding DSP farm cards. They actually sell expansion chassis for these, that have 12 slots. You can also add extra DSP cards with something like the Creamware Pulsar or Scope system. It wasn't hard to run out of PCI slots with the first generation Mac G3s that only had 3 slots.
 
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