Another laptop PCI-extension sollution.

voidar · Post by **voidar** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:57 pm

http://www.ibpmt.com/main.asp?frame=pcicardbox

Cheaper than the Magma gear

Post by **hubird** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:48 pm

that is looking good!
3-slot version: €1024,-.
Makes me curious what price Creamware would ask for a box théy maybe are designing...
Hm, still I'd prefer 5 Volt Scope cards, as a G5 alone will take some mony already...

dehuszar · Post by **dehuszar** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 5:09 pm

Perhaps I got a sweet deal, but I think that's a wee bit more expensive than the Magma chassis'. At least when buying from the US. Perhaps internationally, Magma is quite expen$ive.

Sam

Post by **hubird** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 5:32 pm

the Magma CB-2slot is priced about the same, the 2 slot IBP box is €735,-.
A Magma 3 slot isn't available BTW.
http://www.mobl.com/expansion/pci/index.html

voidar · Post by **voidar** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:01 pm

On 2005-01-19 17:09, dehuszar wrote:
Perhaps I got a sweet deal, but I think that's a wee bit more expensive than the Magma chassis'. At least when buying from the US. Perhaps internationally, Magma is quite expen$ive.

Sam

IBP is a German company I guess, so yes, it would be the prefered option for Europeans.

Magma gear is occationaly available on eBay though.

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:44 am

Huh, a bit too expensive solutions for just an adapter.

Does anyone know anything similar, but with firewire interface?

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:52 am

Affordable/portable creamware solution that would be hot

voidar · Post by **voidar** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:00 am

On 2005-01-20 06:44, spoimala wrote:
Huh, a bit too expensive solutions for just an adapter.

Does anyone know anything similar, but with firewire interface?

No, this is the problem. Be free to look around on google though.

I don't think firewire would be fast enough anyway.

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:26 pm

I am not sure the cards will get the right kind of communication with the south bridge, if it went thru a firewire port. I am thinking of IRQ assignment and probably other stuff I do not know of.

voidar · Post by **voidar** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:01 pm

On 2005-01-20 14:14, stardust wrote:
Is there any experience or reference with scope in those boxes ?

What about fan noise ?

cheers stardust

There have been reports on the Magma boxes. Just search the forum. The IBP boxes will probably work ok too.
The single box is DC-powered and is probably fanless. The dual and onward boxes seem to be AC-powered, but they are low on power-consumption. I don't think there will be much too cool in the first place.

powerpulsarian · Post by **powerpulsarian** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:01 pm

Check out what the competition is up to: http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM05 ... rdbus.html

darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:16 pm

Those things look very suspiciously like re-badged Magmas

Magma does OEM versions (just the boards and connectors needed for operation - you provide the casing/psu yourself) so I imagine that's what these guys have done.

dehuszar · Post by **dehuszar** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:00 pm

On 2005-01-20 14:14, stardust wrote:
Is there any experience or reference with scope in those boxes ?

What about fan noise ?

cheers stardust

Way quieter than any of the desktop setups I've ever used. My laptop has an expansion dock which has 1 PCI slot in it. I've been curious about whether it might be worthwhile to drop for a PCI interface for the Magma to see if I get any PCI bandwidth improvements over the cardbus. It may just be a motherboard thing more than a Cardbus controller thing. Anyone tried this?

Sam

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 5:53 am

No, but I would very much like to know. So please tell, if you take the step.

Shroomz~> · Post by **Shroomz~>** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:52 am

What do you reckon to this solution ??

link to a new thread asking about the Dell Poweredge 2850 2U rack server.>>>>>>>>>

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/produ ... tab#tabtop

Shroomz~> · Post by **Shroomz~>** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:54 am

oops

it should have been this link, as the first goes to Dell, not the thread ..........>>>>

http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... &forum=5&0