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tropicalian
01-28-2003, 09:35 AM
Check this out guys, pretty interesting. You think it'l catch on with audiophiles?

http://club.aopen.com.tw/News/News_showAnswer_New.asp?RecNo=1007&Language=English
Silver Fan
01-28-2003, 10:07 AM
Cool! A gutsy move for a PC maker. Maybe next they will make PC cases with silver faces and big knobs!:p:

Ken
WildWest
01-28-2003, 06:06 PM
You know...If I had a dollar for everytime this came up in a forum I would be a rich man!
zakezuke
05-02-2003, 07:56 AM
Tube, great! But what is the power consumption of it?
ProAc_Fan
05-02-2003, 10:01 AM
Yeah Lefty I've seen it a million times as well. I'm not sure all that extra heat generated by a vacuum tube is the wisest thing inside a PC. If I want tube sound from my PC I just hook up my M-Audio sound card to my tube amp and let it rip. That seems a lot wiser than buying a tubed motherboard. Now if someone wanted to GIVE me a tubed motherboard I'd certainly use it but I'm not shelling out $500US for one.



Mike
zakezuke
05-02-2003, 10:43 AM
Originally posted by ProAc_Fan
Yeah Lefty I've seen it a million times as well. I'm not sure all that extra heat generated by a vacuum tube is the wisest thing inside a PC. If I want tube sound from my PC I just hook up my M-Audio sound card to my tube amp and let it rip. That seems a lot wiser than buying a tubed motherboard. Now if someone wanted to GIVE me a tubed motherboard I'd certainly use it but I'm not shelling out $500US for one.
Mike

From what i've seen, the board retails for about $150-$180, which is a touch spendy in my book.

There is the extra heat, which to be honest, I don't know the power consumption of it. Valuable point. Also it's a touch bulky, it kinda takes up valuable expantion space. Plus the fact that only two channels processed through the tube audio.

Color me silly, but i'd think that this is a task best handled externaly. Use digital outputs and process it through a DAC to me is a far more practical solution, either that or implement a solution that either fits in the drive bay, or alternativly speaking, mounted in a powersupply cassie. There are atleast a few cases, though normaly reserved for servers that have room reserved for additional power supplies.