Build a dedicated Audio PC

[Claus]

Thanks for all your help guys. I intend running it as a single PC with jplay and possibly JRiver for more user-friendliness. I am so far looking at this mSata Plextor M5M PX-64M5M which is cheaper (in Denmark and Germany) and faster than Intel 525 series. I am looking at Corsair or Kingston memory:

Kingston SO-DIMM 8GB KIT PC3-12800 DDR3-1600 HyperX PnP 2x4GB
Corsair SO-DIMM 8GB KIT PC3-12800 DDR3-1600 CL9 1,5V Vengeance

Both around the 60 euro mark...
I am right in thinking two 4GB modules is better than one 8GB?

I will wait it out a bit and see how John gets along...

[nige2000]

Thanks for all your help guys. I intend running it as a single PC with jplay and possibly JRiver for more user-friendliness. I am so far looking at this mSata Plextor M5M PX-64M5M which is cheaper (in Denmark and Germany) and faster than Intel 525 series. I am looking at Corsair or Kingston memory:

Kingston SO-DIMM 8GB KIT PC3-12800 DDR3-1600 HyperX PnP 2x4GB
Corsair SO-DIMM 8GB KIT PC3-12800 DDR3-1600 CL9 1,5V Vengeance

Both around the 60 euro mark...
I am right in thinking two 4GB modules is better than one 8GB?

I will wait it out a bit and see how John gets along...

dont know if two 4gb will be better than an 8g but 2 4's will draw more power and a 8 will let u upgrade to 16gb if required but id doubt its necessary.
corsair and kingston are my favourite two brands, never had to return a kingston ram as of yet

[jkeny]

Claus,
The memory I transferred from netbook to NUC is 2 X 4GB S.Skills DDR3 10666 CL9
Don't know if it's optimal or not - I might replace with one 8GB card as it does get warm & the memory boards are stacked one on top of the other

[nige2000]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mic ... sp=sharing

[nige2000]

Tumbleweed. ..........

John any progress
Ive started on the build in the streacom case, fitting the passive cpu cooler took a while to fit fiddly thing. Doesnt go above 52 degrees during normal use . Preliminary results look good

[Fran]

We're all waiting!!

My processor is somewhere between germnay and here!


How the hell did you get your pagefaults so low?

[jkeny]

Sorry, had to direct my energies to other matters.

[nige2000]

We're all waiting!!

My processor is somewhere between germnay and here!


How the hell did you get your pagefaults so low?

i don't know page faults are not causing me as much hastle as before, ive a few things disabled antivirus, windows defender, search indexing, disabled nvidia driver, disabled all power saving in bios s1.2 esit etc. nothing mad

running a web browser and jriver looses me 1-2 ultrasizes

what heatsink do you have for the i7

[nige2000]

Sorry, had to direct my energies to other matters.

damn paying job strikes again eh!!

[Ken Moreland]

Had an enjoyable listen today to Nige's i3 on my gear and he's getting under 30 in UltraSize (1PC) and the sound quality is superb and I think better than streaming at US=160 (2PC). I tried US on 1PC myself afterwards but I cannot get below about 150 reliably so clearly Nige's PC is really working well. When using Nige's PC as AudioPC with my streaming set-up we couldn't get much better than maybe US=160 so it looks like I have more than one limitation and I suspect the streamer and the network as well. I guess if one is building a dedeicated AudioPC is would be well to consider the streamer and network as well. Jplay do recommend Ethernet connections preferabl crossover with no router.
KM