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Dell PowerEdge 1850 server - Sound Card

  • 25-05-2005 03:09PM
    #1
    mburke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭


    Does anyone know where one can buy a sound card for the dell PowerEdge 1850 server ?

    The standard sound cards do not work with this machine.


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  • #2
    Inspector Gadget
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Inspector Gadget


    <insert deity here> only knows why you're looking to put a sound card into a 1U server, but it only has PCI-X and PCI-Express as options. Don't know if PCI-X is backwards compatible or not, but have you considered a USB sound card as an option? (I assume you're running Windows on it...)

    Gadget


  • #3
    ressem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭ressem


    A recent decent make PCI card should be able to work with the pci-x riser card slot, or did you get pci express with your server?
    Can you look at
    www.lavalink.com/fileadmin/newsletters/link_12_02.pdf
    to determine whether your sound card is a 32 bit 3.3v (which will work) or 32 bit 5V PCI.


    Alternative is a soundcard that uses the USB2 port.
    http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/products/audioadvantage/producthome.asp
    or creative make a bulky more featured version.


    You might want to be careful as plugging in PCI cards to a PCI-X bus might have a detrimental effect on performance if you have say a RAID card or Gigabit NIC.


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