[Ukfreebsd] Recommendations for a PCI-e soundcard?

[Paul Webster]

@andy thomas;

Excellent, as an aside if your pcie card does not work and you go for the
pci/pci-e splitter, you can get flexible pci expansions as well, basically
there a tape expansion from the port to the card:

http://img.dxcdn.com/productimages/sku_226965_3.jpg



On 21 March 2017 at 16:59, andy thomas <andy at time-domain.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Mar 2017, Paul Webster wrote:
>
> As a bit of fun for that riser ... assuming your case is 'fit' to your
>> motherboard so you have no spare space at the bottom, you could reverse
>> the
>> mounting panel on your pci card;s (so its upside down) and mount the card
>> upside down the the pci bridge on the 'top' so to say :)
>>
>
> There's a lot of room inside the case but not that easy to make use of as
> there's this enormous plastic shroud that directs air over the CPUs and
> DIMMs. It would be possible to make up brackets, etc & fix it near the top
> but I'll try an Audigy RX 7.1 card on loan first - I'm rather keen on this
> solution if I can get it to work as it has an on-board headphone amp which
> will drive high impedance phones (such as vintage Koss Pro 4AA's, which are
> 600 ohms) better than most cards intended for low impendance loads.
>
> Andy
>
>
> On 21 March 2017 at 10:36, Ruslan Bukin <ruslan.bukin at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Depends on budget. I can recommend RME HDSPe AIO card, we have snd_hdspe
>>> driver for that.
>>> I am using it about 4 years and I think it provides the best sound
>>> quality
>>> across other supported cards. But it is expensive (it has FPGA chip for
>>> merging audio streams, which is not something you look for).
>>>
>>> Ruslan
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 09:23:52AM +0000, andy thomas wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------
>>>> Andy Thomas,
>>>> Time Domain Systems
>>>>
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