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In Reply to: RE: cMP - the open source high-end Memory Player posted by cics on December 30, 2007 at 05:42:01
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Using i3 530 & GA-H55M-UD2H, destined to be a mainly video media pc for a friend, I've taken a side trip putting cMP on it temporarily. I started going for lowest clocks/lowest voltages, but until I started using low RAM latency to lead me, I was somewhat disappointed with the sound, making allowances for very little burn-in, and the 2GB RAM stick (probably veils the sound slightly compared to smaller ones).
At the moment the speeds are at lowest, RAM is at 5-3-3-9-24-1T, and I haven't lowered voltages at all this time, and sound is much improved. Unfortunately, I've run out of time, and won't learn if lowering voltage again will help or hinder. Temps are low 30s, same as they were when I had voltage barely booting the machine (around .68v).
Other settings are like yours (and cics). I didn't find any difference in temps or sound with 1 or 2 cores, with or without hyperthreading, but I'm not using any upsampling.
Thank you for sharing!
Have you tried disabling HT and using two physical cores instead? I think it *might* help with the crackling problem.
I'll be getting my i3 soon; can't wait to test it against the E7200+G45 combo!
"We should no more let numbers define audio quality than we would let chemical analysis be the arbiter of fine wines." N.P.
i guess the crackling problem is caused by the receiver of my dac which is CS8420 does not support 96khz sampling and above.. will mod to cs8416 when i free.
Why is your RAM set to operate at 800MHz - I see Base clock is 100MHz with RAM mulitplier at 8x. Does BIOS offer anything lower?
@DR - CPU temp shows "- 70°C" and system temp is at "52°C".
@lga775 - please use RealTenp for another measure. Also is the CPU heatsink cool to the touch? If so then you could just remove the fan entirely. I'm hoping this works so we don't have to buy a fancy heatsink. CPU temp can run hot (Intel spec there CPUs to run safely up to ~70°C - will check i3 530). What RAM size is used? What CPU load are you getting at 192k output?
Will be ordering my Core i3 in a few days (waiting for UD2 mobo).
yes. because dd3 cannot go any lower latencies like ddr2 does..
so i try out 800mhz with latencies overclocked yet, it sounds better.for temperature issue, through my monitoring, during normal playback with stock fan it is 30c but if i off the fan it is 70c, through my experience 70c is no harm for a cpu to operate for that temperature in a long period manner. tats all because i have no extra budget for a high performance fanless cpu heatsink cooler.
The most bottleneck is that i still cant figure out how to run 176 or 192 sampling with spdif without crackling sound..
i always prefers 88.2 and 96, my desire of sampling 176.4khz.
i had tried winxp x86, win7 x64, and winxp x64, my personal opinion winxp 64bit offers a better transparency of music. so i will stay at winxp 64bit.
win7 64bit sucked in music.
i hope someone could help me to solve that issue.Thanks alot as we are DIYer. haha
Edits: 03/28/10
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Yes it is F5, Only F5 has ability of disabling spread spectrum.
Thanks for sharing. Looks like some interesting options can be selected in that bios.
Did I see that right though that the temps were 70c for the cpu and 50c overall?
That seems awfully high compared to the under 30c temps I get in my box (after hours of play at 192k)
What accounts for those high temps???
And IIRC one still had to enable ide if one has a sata drive, but in your shots ide is disabled. Are you using a sata drive and is that a difference with the new mobos?
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