Build a dedicated Audio PC

[sima66]

Has anyone tried this Filter Cards:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid= ... &_from=R40

I use them for about two years and they always improved the sound.
I had PC Mini running on batteries and with this Card was better.
Now I'm running Zuma with TeraDak ATX Linear PS and this Card is still an improvement. I'm assuming that is maybe cleaning the MoBo dirt.

[mjock3]

Adam,

thanks for posting this. How does this hookup? Do you just plug it in and that is that?? Or do you plug it in and something (USB card?) gets plugged into it?

Mark

[sima66]

Adam,

thanks for posting this. How does this hookup? Do you just plug it in and that is that?? Or do you plug it in and something (USB card?) gets plugged into it?

Mark

Hi Mark,

Just plug in MoBo slot, same as your Sound Card, nothing else. Very cheap for the improvement!

Adam

[nige2000]

did a bit of testing with the ram mod (clean linear power to ram slots) 1.4v on my b85m g43
looks like another essential modification

ill be doing this to my main machine

[Aleg]

did a bit of testing with the ram mod (clean linear power to ram slots) 1.4v on my b85m g43
looks like another essential modification

ill be doing this to my main machine

Nigel

Where do you feed the 1.4 v to? There is no 1.4v line on mobo ATX.

Cheers

Aleg

[nige2000]

did a bit of testing with the ram mod (clean linear power to ram slots) 1.4v on my b85m g43
looks like another essential modification

ill be doing this to my main machine

Nigel

Where do you feed the 1.4 v to? There is no 1.4v line on mobo ATX.

Cheers

Aleg

theres a choke beside all ram slots bringing in 1.5v (or whatever its set at)
take that out with a soldering iron and wire in an external source of +1.3-1.5v

[jkeny]

did a bit of testing with the ram mod (clean linear power to ram slots) 1.4v on my b85m g43
looks like another essential modification

ill be doing this to my main machine

Yea, we were thinking this would yield some improvement in SQ
Guess battery supply to regulator is the next possible step up in SQ.
Is there a need to be careful with the timing sequence that these various supplies turn on or do you have them all coming on together?
Also does this voltage vary depending on the clocking speed that you run RAM at?

[nige2000]

Yea, we were thinking this would yield some improvement in SQ
Guess battery supply to regulator is the next possible step up in SQ.

Was thinking tranny to regulator to nimh 1.2v battery to ram

Is there a need to be careful with the timing sequence that these various supplies turn on or do you have them all coming on together?

Doesn't seem to be an issue

Also does this voltage vary depending on the clocking speed that you run RAM at?

If you up the frequency you must up voltage
At 800mhz min is 1.3v or no boot

[jkeny]

Was thinking tranny to regulator to nimh 1.2v battery to ram

Sure, sounds like a plan - the NiMH should be able to take that constant overvoltage? I haven't looked at NIMH but all batteries have an overvoltage recharge spec.
Also cool that timing is not an issue - I thought this area might be the real gotcha in all of this PS tweaking, resulting in many dead MOBOs as a result :)?

Also does this voltage vary depending on the clocking speed that you run RAM at?

If you up the frequency you must up voltage
At 800mhz min is 1.3v or no boot

There's no dynamic throttling of CPU/RAM speed/voltage done by the BIOS or can this be turned off?

[Aleg]

did a bit of testing with the ram mod (clean linear power to ram slots) 1.4v on my b85m g43
looks like another essential modification

ill be doing this to my main machine

Nigel

Where do you feed the 1.4 v to? There is no 1.4v line on mobo ATX.

Cheers

Aleg

theres a choke beside all ram slots bringing in 1.5v (or whatever its set at)
take that out with a soldering iron and wire in an external source of +1.3-1.5v

Ah, that's a shame because that's beyond my skills and courage ;-).

Cheers

Aleg