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[sima66]

I still like the 2.66 V2 and V3 the best.

2.77 are to dry, to filtered. A bit less harshness then 2.66, but much less air and musicality.

Sorry, I meant 2.67.....not 2.77! ;-)

[jesuscheung]

Well, lots of thing to check then ;-/

I just disabled HPET and onboard Audio in my BIOS, and I do actually believe it removes some of the over-the-top sharpness.

I have to relisten to some of the music I listened to earlier this afternoon and see if I'm not kidding myself. It is still more sharpish than V2 but I think somewhat more reduced than before.

Fascinating :-)

Cheers

Aleg

It seems that disabling HPET only in the bios has no effect.
See: http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/10757 ... e-and-fps/

Adolfo

Adolfo thanks for reminding me of that.
I just created a new 2012 R2 installation and forgot useplatformclock is not enabled by default.
Switching HPET in BIOS does have an effect, but turning it on in BIOS and not setting useplatformclock means it does not use HPET only but a mixture of clocks.

I wiil look at some combinations (in the meantime I already had turned HPET back on, but left onboard Audio off), now I will compare with and without useplatformclock.

Cheers

Aleg

If you do what I do,
disable HPET in bios
and disable "System timer" in "Device Manager".

That's it. all you need is one timer the "System CMOS/real time clock".

[Aleg]

If you do what I do,
disable HPET in bios
and disable "System timer" in "Device Manager".

That's it. all you need is one timer the "System CMOS/real time clock".

JC

Thanks for this tweak.
It seems it does remove further sharpness from the V2.66 V3.
2.66V3 is very listenable right now.

Timers do appear to have quite an influence on sound quality.

And already 2.67 has arrived. I will try later today, but I do like 2.66V3.

Cheers

Aleg

[goon-heaven]

+1

Does HPET in device manager need disabling too?

[jesuscheung]

+1

Does HPET in device manager need disabling too?

HPET doesn't exist in device manager if already been disabled in bios.

[goon-heaven]

have rechecked: BIOS sez HPET disabled but device shows enabled in device manager. Any ideas?

[jesuscheung]

have rechecked: BIOS sez HPET disabled but device shows enabled in device manager. Any ideas?

disable it in device manager... why not...

[goon-heaven]

Have done - I was just wondering why device manager woz showing it as enabled - will try fathom whether it is the BIOS or Devmgmt telling porkies.

[nige2000]

If you do what I do,
disable HPET in bios
and disable "System timer" in "Device Manager".

That's it. all you need is one timer the "System CMOS/real time clock".

i havent tried it on my audio pc
but its helped for my win 8 desktop and headphones

Any more wisdom JC?

[jesuscheung]

If you do what I do,
disable HPET in bios
and disable "System timer" in "Device Manager".

That's it. all you need is one timer the "System CMOS/real time clock".

i havent tried it on my audio pc
but its helped for my win 8 desktop and headphones

Any more wisdom JC?

people seem interested in tweaks. i shall post 1 tweak a day. try not ask me why and to explain. just tell me if something is wrong/incorrect.

the following tweak i learnt from reading "Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2012" from msdn. i just export my registry below:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
"SymlinkLocalToRemoteEvaluation"=dword:00000001
"SymlinkLocalToLocalEvaluation"=dword:00000001
"NtfsDisableCompression"=dword:00000000
"DisableDeleteNotification"=dword:00000000
"FilterSupportedFeaturesMode"=dword:00000000
"NtfsDisableEncryption"=dword:00000000
"SymlinkRemoteToRemoteEvaluation"=dword:00000000
"NtfsAllowExtendedCharacter8dot3Rename"=dword:00000000
"NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation"=dword:00000001
"NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate"=dword:00000001
"SymlinkRemoteToLocalEvaluation"=dword:00000000
"NtfsQuotaNotifyRate"=dword:00000e10
"NtfsMftZoneReservation"=dword:00000000
"Win31FileSystem"=dword:00000000
"Win95TruncatedExtensions"=dword:00000001
"NtfsEncryptPagingFile"=dword:00000000
"NtfsDisableVolsnapHints"=dword:00000000
"NtfsMemoryUsage"=dword:00000000
"NtfsBugcheckOnCorrupt"=dword:00000000
"ScrubMode"=dword:00000001
"UdfsSoftwareDefectManagement"=dword:00000000
"UdfsCloseSessionOnEject"=dword:00000003
"DontVerifyRandomDrivers"=dword:00000001
"MaximumTunnelEntries"=dword:00000000

i might have modified more values than those in bold. dont remember.