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9. [New] Further BIOS Refinements

Access BIOS setup Menu. Under ‘Advanced Chipset Features’ select ‘CPU & PCI Bus Control’. Disable:

1. PCI Delay Transaction
2. VLink 8x Support

These changes work best when playing music with Windows reduced to its bare minimum (see link below).

Disabling PCI Delay Transaction deviates from PCI standards but reduces latency.

Disabling VLink 8x reduces bus bandwidth from 533MB/s. This is major overkill for audio as we only need 0.37MB/s for playback and 0.17MB/s for sequential data read. Bus operates at lower clock speed resulting in less RF radiation.

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