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In Reply to: RE: Problems with cMP shell posted by tom_on_wheels on April 05, 2010 at 06:17:21
. . . two or three little dropouts per track.Glad it's working but you should not be getting any drop-outs.
However, cMP^2 was always intended for - and is undeniably at its best with - a dedicated computer or at least a dedicated OS install.
Have you done the optimisations described in Chapter 7 of the web site write-up (the one called, surprisingly, "Optimisations")? Have you disabled any firewall or AV software? And so on. Unless you have, I wouldn't worry about dropouts for now - they are unlikely to persist in a dedicated setup. Are you using cPlay to "upsample"? If so, try turning it off. Might tell you something.
Would it be worth to go on with [an Atom 230] mobo?
I use a single-core Atom mobo (Fit-PC2, 1.1 GHz), no upsampling. With a USB DAC, it sounds much better than the recommended Biostar and Gigabyte motherboards ever did.
As a test, I find I can downsample from 96 to 44.1 KHz but not from 192 KHz. That suggests that your Foxconn board would work fine with 44.1 KHz material provided you don't upsample it and that hi-res data should also be fine. If you upsample, YMMV.
Bear in mind that cPlay is optimised for the SSE4 instructions set while the Atom supports only SSSE3 instructions. Thus, it follows that I don't know what I'm missing but, I suspect, not that much.
Given the price of a 500 MB 2.5" HDD these days, I can confidently recommend trying your Foxconn board with cMP^2 provided you can live with the above limitations. I can.
HTH
Dave
Edits: 04/05/10Follow Ups:
Hi Dave,
thank you for encouraging me to try the Foxconn mobo. I will buy a HDD this afternoon and start...
Regards
Tom
Hi all,
my new system is running, all optimisations are done eccept minlogon and it sounds good.
Dave, thanks again.
Regards
Tom
all optimisations are done except minlogon
I don't know why you're thanking me - I didn't do anything. Whatever, I'm glad you're pleased with it. (I assume your "dropouts" have vanished.)
The "minlogon" change will make quite a difference but be sure to make an imagefile of your system partition before implementing it. If you don't, it will definitely go wrong and you will then have to rebuild from scratch.
Just out of interest, what soundcard/DAC are you using?
Dave
I am a very polite German, so I was thanking you for telling me that it is worth to try the Intel Atom 230 board - and it is.
I use a PS Audio DL III tweaked by Dr. Moll.
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