AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

[Music Manic]

Are there any MOBOs that support this with a single PCI or is PCI a bottleneck in the modern day?

[garyb]

PCI is obsolete, but you may be able to find a motherboard that supports it. i would guess that the latest boards will not have any PCI slots, unless they are a commercial server board.

[Music Manic]

Ok thks Gary. I have the MSI one to keep my pci alive. I still think the Scope DSP sound quality is great. A shame it can’t solely by used for that on modern boards. They look so so fast and efficient now. DSP still has it’s benefits

[nebelfuerst]

You can still find mobo with pci, but they are industrial boards, while the 3900x is consumer line.
At work we just bought boards with Xeons and 2 pci slots. ( You even could still buy ISAslots these days !)

[Music Manic]

You can still find mobo with pci, but they are industrial boards, while the 3900x is consumer line.
At work we just bought boards with Xeons and 2 pci slots. ( You even could still buy ISAslots these days !)

Can they compete with these CPUs though? I will never give up scope but the x54 bit O/S has its limits with old sets.

[nebelfuerst]

I don't know you CPU reqirements, but at work we have a 4* Xeon (each at 4Ghz) mainboard with PCI, which is sold to industrial customers only.

There are also companies that offer cheaper industrial mainboards like this:
https://www.dfi.com/de/product/index/1523

Here's an old board, which has two PCI and will run 3900X with BIOS update 4801. ( I own one of these with an 2700X)
https://www.asus.com/de/Motherboards-Co ... ME-X370-A/

My music PCs are 10 years old, and I optimised them to low latency, disabled all that Win10-shit. I never reached the CPU limit with my DAWs, Scope.

[Music Manic]

Here's an old board, which has two PCI and will run 3900X with BIOS update 4801. ( I own one of these with an 2700X)
https://www.asus.com/de/Motherboards-Co ... ME-X370-A/

My music PCs are 10 years old, and I optimised them to low latency, disabled all that Win10-shit. I never reached the CPU limit with my DAWs, Scope.

Wow that looks ideal for Scope pulsar PCI 2. Thanks for the pointer.