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mschnell · 03-25-2019, 11:22 PM

I understand that Thunderbold is more or less "PCI in a cable".

OTOH a PCI can have multiple "lanes" (AFAIK, either of 1 2 or 4) working in parallel, so "PIC" by itself is not a very relevant description.

In the German "Sound & Recording" magazine about a year ago, I read a very enthusiastic report on a Windows PC that comes pre-insatalled with the OS tweaked for DAW use and with an especially selected Thunderbold card.

I suppose unless you are very experienced with "embedded" PC tweaking, you should spend some additional $$ for a PC coming from a company with decent experience on "audio" PCs.

-Michael

03-25-2019, 11:22 PM	#2
mschnell Human being with feelings Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Krefeld, Germany Posts: 14,776	I understand that Thunderbold is more or less "PCI in a cable". OTOH a PCI can have multiple "lanes" (AFAIK, either of 1 2 or 4) working in parallel, so "PIC" by itself is not a very relevant description. In the German "Sound & Recording" magazine about a year ago, I read a very enthusiastic report on a Windows PC that comes pre-insatalled with the OS tweaked for DAW use and with an especially selected Thunderbold card. I suppose unless you are very experienced with "embedded" PC tweaking, you should spend some additional $$ for a PC coming from a company with decent experience on "audio" PCs. -Michael __________________ http://www.boa-sorte.de, http://www.bschnell.de/b Last edited by mschnell; 03-25-2019 at 11:28 PM.