[Ukfreebsd] Recommendations for a PCI-e soundcard?

[Paul Webster]

or perhaps get two pci's and a usb 3? (not sure of support)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/PCI-E-express-riser-USB3-0-cable/dp/B00N1VJZII/ref=pd_sim_147_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=DQ7SQ7YQM1X4WRMJEDCZ

On 21 March 2017 at 10:44, Paul Webster <paul.g.webster at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> think I would just slap in a bluetooth adapter (+blue tooth headphones) or
> a cheap usb sound card, why waste the pci-e slot :)
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> On 21 March 2017 at 09:23, andy thomas <andy at time-domain.co.uk> wrote:
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>> I've long used FreeBSD as a desktop OS as well as for servers &
>> firewalls, etc and I've now started using a Dell Poweredge T710 tower
>> server as a desktop PC as it's fast with lots of memory & storage. But it
>> has no PCI slots, only PCI-e so I can't use tried & tested PCI bus sound
>> cards in this machine which are known to be supported by FreeBSD.
>>
>> I'm thinking of buying the Creative Audigy RX 7.1 as it seems to be based
>> on a revised version of the EMU10k2 chipset which I use under FreeBSD on
>> PCI-bus systems and won't be an expensive flop if I can't get it to work
>> under BSD (I can put it into a Linux box instead). But before doing so I
>> thought I'd ask here first in case someone has already got a PCI-e sound
>> card working under FreeBSD. Does anyone have any recommendations? By the
>> way, the card has to be a PCI-e x1 type as all the free slots are x1 (the
>> single x16 slot is already filled with a nVidia graphics card).
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
>>
>> Andy
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