How do I
fasten the board and the adapter to the
chassis?
Half Height Card
The card can be installed with or
without the original card mounting bracket in place. Removing the
bracket allows for flush installation in a full height slot. The
card is placed into the adapter and the adapter is plugged into the
X1 slot in the motherboard.. |
Adapter with half height card installed (bracket removed) |
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Full Height Card
First of all you need 1 5/8" (40 mm) clearance above standard height card if
using a full height card with the adapter. We recommend a #6 (M3.5) 1.5
inch (40mm) or 1.75 inch
long machine screw that threads into the card hold down hole in your
computer's chassis. We suggest a putting a nut threaded midway along the screw. This allows you to screw down the
adapter and the card firmly into the chassis. Adjust the nut (s) so that the
PCI card is inserted straight into the adapter. |
Adapter with a full height card installed (bracket in
place) |
Profile view of adapter with a half height card
installed |
In
profile, the adapter should be no wider than a normal card and fit
into a standard slot. |
Will the adapter work with my PCI sound card?
Unfortunately, the answer
really isn't so cut and dry as a yes or a no.
Regardless of anything else, doing work with digital audio is going to be
very sensitive. While the Creative X-Fi offers that low (~1ms) latency,
there's alot going on with your computer as far as drivers go.
From the results I've been getting with the Delta series M-Audio cards, I
would advise using the PCI-e adapter with an audio card. The latency isn't
the problem, it's more of an electrical problem. I'm not sure how to really
explain it, because the results are so strange, but the problems with the
M-Audio cards could be attributed to the poor drivers right now.
A problem that I've been having (with no such solution appearing so far) is
that above 44.1kHz, the audio output from the M-Audio Delta cards is
distorted, in that it will play too fast, or too slow, as if the clock rate
of the application is changing, or the clock rate of the card is changing,
but it isn't happening together.
Overall however, system optimization is going to play a much larger role in
terms of latency and performance than the PCI-PCIe bridge. The reason for
this is that not all PCI-Express slots are running on their own bus, so
while a hardware conflict won’t be shown, there will be shared resources,
and whichever part has the faster bandwidth, will take over, and could cause
problems for all other hardware, mostly seen when PCI slots are sharing
PCI-Express busses on many new motherboards.
We offer a 30-day return policy
on PCIE adapter cards.
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