Hadox Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 Hi, I'm new to the forum but I've been tinkering away at the budget end of the file-playback and streaming spectrum for some years. I have a Cantatis Overture PCI soundcard gathering dust at home. As well as being an excellent dual-mono Burr Brown DAC in it's own right, it also has an SPDIF output which I am keen to use to feed my SPS DAC3 non-oversampling DAC, to see if this represents an improvement over USB input. My question is - might it be feasible to build a fanless PC with a PCI slot (not PCI-E)? Does anyone have any advice or am I on a hiding to nowhere with this idea? Thanks in advance. Link to comment
seeteeyou Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 Fanless motherboard with PCI slot https://www.mini-itx.com/~J3455N-D3H https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-J3455N-D3H-rev-10 Alternatively, you could get an enclosure like this https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Express-Expansion-Enclosure-System/dp/B002I9SK5S https://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/Slot-Extension/PCI-Express-to-2-PCI-Full-Length-2-PCIe-Single-lane-Expansion-Box~PEX2PCIE4L Hadox 1 Link to comment
Hadox Posted November 6, 2018 Author Share Posted November 6, 2018 That gigabyte mobo looks like just the job. I wasn't expecting to find a Mini ITX board with PCI, was expecting maybe Micro ATX. In stock at a number of UK suppliers too. Really helpful, thanks. Link to comment
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