If a PCs built in ports are too iffy to use with LCNC or other CNC software, will a PCI port card work? I finally managed to give away all but one of my stack of Optiplex GX520 boxes. I have 4 gig RAM and a pair of 80 gig drives in it along with an old PCI Radeon 7000. That leaves one free PCI and one PCI Express x1. Could free the other PCI by going to a PCIe x1 video card, but I may want to use it for something that's only available in PCIe. (There are USB 3.0 PCI cards but they're expensive and while faster than 2.0 cannot come close to 3.0's top speed.)
The GX520 is really a GX620 that the PCIe x16 slot, two DIMM slots and all but two of the SATA ports have been left off. I could swap in a GX620 board or some of the GX700 series, but where's the fun in that? Would be too tempting to install 8 gigs, a nice GPU, faster Core 2 Duo (or Quad) CPU, big drive and Windows 10 on it... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
