Mojo on PC with 32bit PCI slots

[Alex Alexzander]

Mojo would likely work if you simply captured DV to an internal drive, and had no other FireWire drives in use while the mojo is connected. I’ve run a Mojo on a P4 running at 3.2 GHz in that way.

That being said, if you want to do more than DV, and require more storage beyond that single internal drive you have, you’re going to need a motherboard that supports more than one independent bus. It’s best to buy the HP or the Dell that Avid recommends, but if you must build, then perhaps the X6DAE-G2 is the best board out there. It’s almost exactly the same as the board used in the Avid spec’ed HP workstation.

This board offers the independent bus architecture you would need to run a Mojo, and external storage. You’d be able to keep up with the bandwidth requirements of 1:1.

even building the box on your own, it will likely cost you at least $2k for the hardware needed.

-Alex

[Ronen]

Thank you for the quick respond Alex,
I am not planning to work with more than DV with this system,
But do want to use the advantages of the mojo for previewing on cline monitor

Which MB did you use to run the Mojo on [. I’ve run a Mojo on a P4 running at 3.2 GHz in that way. ]
How can I find out if my motherboard support more than one independent bus?
Thanks
Ronen

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[Alex Alexzander]

I have to look it up, as I don’t do it anymore. and there is a gotcha to doing it. I’ll look for the old box and explain how I did it back then. I’ll add that later tonight.

What I remember was it was an ASUS, and I had to turn on the Mojo first, and then power up the computer. If I didn’t do it that way, the mojo would never work. I have the box somewhere.

-Alex

[Alex Alexzander]

It was an ASUS P4P800SE with a Pyro PCI 64.

Again, this is not anywhere near as robust as on a dual xeon with a split bus. I have heard of others getting away with running a mojo on a board it shouldn’t have run on as well. One even on an AMD.

Hope that helps.

-Alex