I have been looking to upgrade from v5 for a while now, but I was waiting for the new mac mini's. The whole time, my very nice gaming PC(i5 3750k, 16gig of 1866 ddr3, win 8.1) was staring me in the face. I downloaded the demo of 8.06 and loaded BPM and Kontact 3 with no trouble at all. Everything supported x64.
The firewire card I have( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001JT ... UTF8&psc=1 ) seems to work with my Traveler(not mk2) and my 8pre, but I haven't pushed it very hard yet. I do a lot more visualization these days vs 16 simultaneous instruments.
Does anyone have a card that they would swear by? Is this one as good as any others out there? I saw that MOTU reccomended a Texas Instruements chip, but if this one works, will a TI chip be any different?
Thanks.
Prefered Firewire PCI Card?
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Re: Prefered Firewire PCI Card?
Here's some info further down the Amazon page:
So it's not a TI chipset. But here's the bottom line: If it ain't broke, don't fix it! If the system operates without clicks and pops, you should be in the clear.According to the SYBA website it has a JMB38X chipset which I believe is a product of JMicron. You can read about it here: http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=483, http://www.jmicron.com/Index.html and http://www.jmicron.com/Product_JMB38X.htm.