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Dual vs Single Channel; RAM loading upsampled WAV; Voltages

There's advantage from using dual channel memory and could reduce jitter by a very small amount. Unfortunately (like most things) there's a tradeoff: another electrical device.

Arthur's suggestion: Same applies to RAM loading upsampled WAV data as significantly more RAM is needed. Of course, one approach in cPlay would be to RAM load track at a time with each track upsampled into RAM and not during playback. This could be accommodated with just 1GB RAM. This needs a playlist GUI tool that would marshal one track to the next... That would be very nice indeed! Any volunteers to do the coding?

Voltage rails: I would start at 12V1 which unfortunately carries 12V, 5V & 3.3V lines of which 5V & 12V are critical. PCI slots offer 3.3 or 5 volt supply - you can tell this by where the notch is: front (close to mobo edge) is 3.3V and rear is 5V (Gigabyte & Biostar mobos). Soundcards are designed to operate with either voltage.

Alfred is correct, 12V2 (4 pin 12V connector) is used to power CPU.



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