 Power Mac 5500, PCI Sound.. |
  Fri 27 Jun 2003, 05:37
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Hi There! I'm setting up a Powermac 5500+ machine for hard disk recording, and I've run into a problem. The 5500 only has one PCI slot. I want to install a good sound card, but I don't want to limit the machine by not being able to expand it any further.
If I install a USB 2 or FireWire card to the PCI Slot, would I be able to run an external sound card / box with this machine? Have any of you used external sound cards with older Macs with any success ? The basic specs of the machine are 250Mhz 603e with 64 megs memory running OS8, but will be updateing to 128 Megs (the systems max) and OS8.x or maybe OS9 if it will take it.. A newer system is not an option here. Thanks up front for any advice / opinions any of you fine people may offer. Tom |
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Mon 30 Jun 2003, 08:47
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Thanks !
I'll take the machine to OS 8.** and see what happens. As for the audio interface stuff, The only thing I worry about with the external setup would be latency problems.. I would think the firewire setup would work around that, but I don't know much about how a Mac deals with such things... Sorry to say, but I have much more experience on the PC when it comes to digital audio. I have a few standard PCI audio cards from my old PC stuff that I may mess around with first ( if I can find drivers for them.. ) but I'm leaning towards the external setup. Now if someone could drop a few hints on firewire interfaces, my life would be complete  Thanks again for the tips / advice / opinions ... it all helps much more than you may believe. Take care now........ Tom |
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bordy97 Power Mac 5500 Fri 27 Jun 2003, 05:37
june bug you should better install a PCI sound card : bette... Fri 27 Jun 2003, 10:16 bordy97 Thanks Junebug, I'll look into those cards. I ... Fri 27 Jun 2003, 13:16 Saurabh Sethi Posted on Jun 27 2003, 04:37
Hi There! I... Sat 28 Jun 2003, 13:02 Synthetic I agree with Saurabh on the OS for 5500. I would j... Sat 28 Jun 2003, 16:49
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