Eh up guys and / or dolls....
I'm looking into the future now where my PC might get upgraded. Given the age of my Intel processor and the potential for this to become a bottleneck with the new exploit mitigations it might be that my next upgrade has to go all out and replace not just the GPU but the GPU, CPU, mobo and RAM. Given I have a watercooled CPU, I'm not amused as this'll likely not fit a more modern socket.
That aside, should I suddenly become wealthy enough to do this, one of the few components I'd like to keep would be my Soundblaster Elite Pro soundcard. This uses a standard PCI slot and there aren't exactly many mobos out there that would do everything I want them to do that sport one of these. I've seen converters that take a PCI-E x1 slot and convert it to a PCI slot. My question is does anyone have any experience as to whether these things work, if they require extra drivers and if said drivers are stable?
Or should I just accept that once again my perfectly good sound card is obselete and I'll have to fork out again? I also expect that a Windows 10 update is at some point going to render it useless as Creative aren't exactly very supportive with Windows 10 software for cards this old.
Cheers for any help.