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Here is an almost fanless 2u audio rack unit. I am looking in to getting rid of that last fan as well. It it the only moving part in the whole machine.
Only uses 34 watts at the plug when the DSP card is fully loaded. (66 watts when CPU is under full load as well)
This is for a project i am working on at http://neutron-sound.blogspot.comthe whole point of the exercise is to host that pulsar card.
They are notoriously fussy about the PCI implementation, IRQ sharing etc. i had tried a Via board with not much luck.
The rest of the electronics for the project will go in a matching 1u box from the same place(ebay actually they are $50)
The back panel is from an old 2u pentium 3 server case (it was about 30 inches long though)
I had to do a lot of hacking, dremelling, and drilling to make them fit together.then lining up the holes for the motherboard, bleah.
Computer:
CPU E7300
Motherboard Intel DG41MJ
SSD OCZ Agility 60GB
1 stick 2GB RAM, (other one is RMA'd)
Power brick and DC-DC converter from mini-box.com
Sonic core pulsar. (made in 2001!)
Here it is running a modular synth, a delay and a mixer on the DSP.everything is completely run on DSP There is no driver latency or anything it is like having a piece of hardware (actually it will still work even if windows crashes)
I have been running it for days doing various stress tests and that intel board seems to be rock stable. no crash at all yet.
all i have to do now is cut and solder the wire for the power brick to the receptacle. make a power switch/light assembly and neaten everything up, make bracket for SSD and PSU etc.
Here is a video of it booting up (before it was put in the enclosure) setup now is exactly the same except without the ugly huge power supply.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFVdGL6nQoM
Why is it called X-03? well soniccore has a new box called XITE-1 it is something like $4000 and this DSP card is about 0.03 times as powerful as that one
mind you they dont have a computer in theirs
Only uses 34 watts at the plug when the DSP card is fully loaded. (66 watts when CPU is under full load as well)
This is for a project i am working on at http://neutron-sound.blogspot.comthe whole point of the exercise is to host that pulsar card.
They are notoriously fussy about the PCI implementation, IRQ sharing etc. i had tried a Via board with not much luck.
The rest of the electronics for the project will go in a matching 1u box from the same place(ebay actually they are $50)
The back panel is from an old 2u pentium 3 server case (it was about 30 inches long though)
I had to do a lot of hacking, dremelling, and drilling to make them fit together.then lining up the holes for the motherboard, bleah.
Computer:
CPU E7300
Motherboard Intel DG41MJ
SSD OCZ Agility 60GB
1 stick 2GB RAM, (other one is RMA'd)
Power brick and DC-DC converter from mini-box.com
Sonic core pulsar. (made in 2001!)
Here it is running a modular synth, a delay and a mixer on the DSP.everything is completely run on DSP There is no driver latency or anything it is like having a piece of hardware (actually it will still work even if windows crashes)
I have been running it for days doing various stress tests and that intel board seems to be rock stable. no crash at all yet.
all i have to do now is cut and solder the wire for the power brick to the receptacle. make a power switch/light assembly and neaten everything up, make bracket for SSD and PSU etc.
Here is a video of it booting up (before it was put in the enclosure) setup now is exactly the same except without the ugly huge power supply.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFVdGL6nQoM
Why is it called X-03? well soniccore has a new box called XITE-1 it is something like $4000 and this DSP card is about 0.03 times as powerful as that one
mind you they dont have a computer in theirs
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