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Hey everyone, been a while since I have been around on this board.

I wanted to get some advice or suggestions if anyone has the time or is willing to point me in the right direction.

I am just finishing up a composing job that I will be paid for soon and planned on getting a new system. The more I look at it though, the more I think I should try to salvage what I have and add to it (like add extra pcs to make a sampler rig for orchestra music)

I have a SCOPE Pro PCI card and an Asus P5K-E mobo p35 chipset.

This damn board is falling apart on me finally. Most of the sata ports are starting to fail on me so my main issue is hard drive problems, though it doesn't necessarily play very nice with my scope card either in windows 7 64 bit (though it is flawless in xp 32bit) Basically I will get bluescreens in XTC mode sometimes if I play around with a video file (Scope will conflict with my video card in windows 7 64 bit but not in XP) I guess windows 7 routes hardware differently because the IRQ is isolated in XP but not in 7 64 bit.

I have 4 sticks of 2gb Kingston ddr800 ram and a Q6850 quad intel in the board as well.
I have a powercore express and 3 uad-1 cards (1 pci and 2 pci-e)

So this board basically houses all of that dsp power and for the most part without issues.
I eventually want to ditch the uad-1 cards for 1 uad-2 quad so that I can streamline my power but for now I would probably need the right amount of slots for my cards

In a nutshell -

Need to get a motherboard with at least 2 pci slots and 3 pci-e slots (that will play nice with a scope board having its own irq etc) and that will transfer all my old parts nicely.


So my question basically, is to salvage most of these things (as I never really max out the system when I work), which motherboard should I buy? I know the older boards are hard to find and when you do find them they are sometimes pricier.

I remember XITE/4-Live told me about an intel board that was superb that would be good. I just want to basically spend a minimum amount of cash to make the most of what I have and then later upgrade to a new system when I have the money to do so. Thanks in advance!

intel dp35dp.

AH! I remember that one! Good thing I can still find it! For about 75 bucks to boot too.

Now let me ask you this. Since the SCOPE Pro Card is full size pci and I am pretty much using every pci slot, do you know a good case? I am going to rebuild it in a newer case I think. Any other recommendations like cooling/fans or anything that might help me rebuild the machine would be awesome. This is the last time I build my own machine, next time I am gonna go with visiondaw. Thanks Gary

sure.

i'm not sure what case to point you to right now. it's harder to find cases that will fit a full length pci card these days. i've had really good luck with 4 space rack cases lately on ebay. cooling is good with those, as airflow is usually front to back and straight on through. that's not necessarily the quietest option(but it's not crazy loud with a clean fan either)...

antec always was a good choice, but i don't know if they have one that takes a full length card. the cheiftec style case was the classic choice...

Oh cool. Yea I have an anted now and I saw a few new ones but I may look into a rackmount case. That would be pretty great if I could get it working. Thanks again

Let me ask you one more thing gary,

Say I wasn't going to salvage my machine. What is a good modern board for scope pci cards?

if you're going to stick with pci cards, i'd say that sticking with the socket 775 motherboard(like the dp35dp) really isn't a bad idea. you can get a very fast Core2 quad processor to go with it(still currently offered), and really you're not sacrificing much performance. the pci cards will be happier with the dp35's chipset, than they will be with a later chipset, although socket 1156 motherboards still work pretty well.

if you just have the money and really want one of the latest systems, it's a good time to go to an XITE.

Does the XITE Pci-e card have any issues with modern mobos? Like, is there little hiccups still on IRQ and board issues now?

I am using SCOPE less and less these days. The only thing I like it for at this point is vinco and optimaster for the insane punch I get with the plugs. So many other things are passing up the technology these days so I am leaning more and more towards not getting XITE and going for something that integrates with Cubase like the Yamaha N12 Mixer/Interface. The things looks amazing and after getting the UAD-2, I don't really need the plugs in SCOPE anymore so I may sell the card after my next project, or I may just keep it in the machine and use it on and off for processing with certain plugs. But either way, it seems my best bet is to get this intel mobo while I still can.

Thanks again gary