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Re: Hello from a New Paris User [message #109342 is a reply to message #109341] |
Fri, 26 May 2017 15:53 |
story
Messages: 14 Registered: March 2016
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Hi Raph, very interesting. I have also thought about the XW 4600, as I know colleagues of mine used this PC successfully for the Fairlight CC-1 Audio card. But of course that is a PCIe, so PCI might be another story and the EDS cards need more power than the Fairlight card.
I'm also thinking of getting an Exsys EX-1035 expansion board like Wayne did, and put it in a Mini Tower like the "CoolerMaster Silencio 352" with a beefy silent PSU. I have a RME 9652 and two EDS cards so the four slots would be just perfect.
I haven't made a decision yet and would be very interested in your further findings. Should the XW-4600 be sufficient, I might take that road as well. I definitely need 3x 5V PCI slots, so the only modern solution is the one Mike and Daniel took with the Asus Z97c Mobo, but then I'd have to build a new PC and I'm not really good at that, lol. Keep us updated, if you will!
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Re: Hello from a New Paris User [message #109344 is a reply to message #109343] |
Fri, 26 May 2017 19:23 |
SummingStrange
Messages: 43 Registered: April 2017 Location: Downunder
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story wrote on Sat, 27 May 2017 09:16 | So the XW 4600 PSU shows 110W combined power on the 3,3 and 5V rail (printed on the PSU itself, I saw it on a picture online). Are you saying this isn't sufficient for 2 EDS cards? I mean those would be 50W together, no? Getting confused.
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Yes, you're spot on - 110W on that rail. The problem is that the 3.3/5V rail supplies the Motherboard and RAM as well as the PCI slots. The XW4600 uses DDR2 Ram, and removing 4GB (2x 2Gb sticks out of the 4 in the PC I'm looking at) from the calculations seemed to give back about 15W!
Maybe the calculator wasn't that accurate, and to be fair the only option for adding the EDS cards into the calculation was using the option "High end sound card" but these seemed to add only about 8 to 10 watts each. It appeared that the XW4600 in the spec I'm looking at didn't have much power left to run stuff on the 5V PCI slots, this could be some evidence that the calculator was wrong - surely you can't buld a PC with 3 PCI slots and have it not be able to use them if you have max Ram and a couple of 5V drives, can you?
Expansion chassis would be ideal, and gives you a lot of future-proofing as you can use it on any PC with a PCIe slot and upgrade your PSU any time. Pretty costly though.
[Updated on: Fri, 26 May 2017 19:24] Report message to a moderator
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