Just do what I did, soldier hugely shielded RCA cables right by the sound chip. The sound clearly ouperforms SBLive 5.1 and earlier. DVDs will play all 6 channels at 24bit, 96KHz.
The good sound may be due to my 450 watt power supply which has an AC leakage current UNDER 0.1ma. Compare that to the normal 1-2ma... It also has SPDIF/AC3/AC5.1/DTS digital output in so called Audiophile grade. This just means it properly passed through the ACx/DTS data unmodified & at the right clock rate. Unlike SBLive, it doesn't pop/click when playing music or games. Also, the whole unit has only 3 fans and it's super quiet. (1 on cpu, 1 on video card, 1 on power supply, Altera's Quartus does accelerate the fans considerably when compiling jobs which take more than 5 minutes.) _____________ Brian Guralnick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bagotronix Tech Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:17 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] New PC tested with Protel for at least 1 month now... > > I do believe the stability of my new system is that all the > peripherals, > > 24 bit/96KHz sound, USB, 1394, Ethernet, SATA raid controller, ATA raid > > controller are all on the motherboard & the video card was also made by > Asus > > I bet that 24bit/96KHz sound that's on the mobo doesn't sound so good. I > have yet to find mobo sound that is good. And IIRC, Brian is da man when it > comes to hi-fi sound, so he's got to be even pickier than I am. Even my > Sound Blaster Live card, which is supposed to be a hi-fi card, has residual > noise that I can hear during passages of silence. I'd estimate (with my > earscope) that it has about 14-bits of s/n ratio, even though it's a 16-bit > card. The Biostar and Via mobo sound I have is maybe 11-bit s/n ratio, at > best. > > Brian, I'm glad your new mobo still has serial and parallel ports. Oh, God, > please don't take away my serial and parallel ports! > > I see you are running Protel 99SE on it, and it flys. If you really want to > strain it, load the Visual Studio .NET suite on it. I know a developer who > says the new .NET stuff slows his dual PIII to a crawl. That's a big reason > he is still developing with Visual Studio 6. You can also tax it with > Autodesk Inventor. > > Best regards, > Ivan Baggett > Bagotronix Inc. > website: www.bagotronix.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Guralnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:19 PM > Subject: Re: [PEDA] New PC tested with Protel for at least 1 month now... > > > > I do believe the stability of my new system is that all the > peripherals, > > 24 bit/96KHz sound, USB, 1394, Ethernet, SATA raid controller, ATA raid > > controller are all on the motherboard & the video card was also made by > Asus > > ensuring a trouble free 8X AGP functionality. It even more stable than my > > old Dual PIII 1 GHz. Also, the 2 X 120 Gbyte Western Digital HDs read & > > write at over 100 Megabytes / second on a continuous basis. > > > > I'm sure if I added 1 card to the PCI bus, the boot time would > probably > > double. > > > > Additional, I have successfully over clocked this motherboard to 4.1 > > GHz, though, I don't think it's worth the potential headaches. > > > > _____________ > > Brian Guralnick > > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
