Claus, you shouldn't need anything other than the basic version of W8. Usually the higher end version have more nusiness type tools included and maybe windows media centre etc - none of which you will be needing....
And see my PM....
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Ken - next time!!!
Everyone else - I'm looking forward to it all now!!
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Took me a bit of messing before I got the ISO to copy to USB stick. But once that was done the install went very smoothly and fast. I had it up and running but then ran into a problem late last night with displaying on my TV. Will look into it today and download jplay and drivers. Is there a sticky somewhere with tweaks to windows?
Here is a few pics from the build:
I have no clue what the little hatch is for. Also as you can see there is space for a standard size SSD in the case and connector is included. A detailed manual would be very handy as I still not sure what the green connector on the back is for...The power supply should have been ordered separately, which I think is a bit unclear from the minipc.de website. But otherwise the quality and service has been excellent....
Here is a few pics from the build:
I have no clue what the little hatch is for. Also as you can see there is space for a standard size SSD in the case and connector is included. A detailed manual would be very handy as I still not sure what the green connector on the back is for...The power supply should have been ordered separately, which I think is a bit unclear from the minipc.de website. But otherwise the quality and service has been excellent....
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Claus, nice looking build - how does the case look in the flesh - industrial or lounge-friendly?
The green mini-board is an mSata riser which would seem to connect into your existing mSata slot & come up through the hatch for connecting to a standard Sata drive in the bay. At least that's what I make of it.
The green mini-board is an mSata riser which would seem to connect into your existing mSata slot & come up through the hatch for connecting to a standard Sata drive in the bay. At least that's what I make of it.
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Looks good Claus - it'll be very interesting to see how it and john's nuc fare out tomorrow night.
Fran
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It is up and running! Jaysus I can't get my head around this Windows 8 GUI!!! But.... Just had a semi-religous experience with Rising High Water Blues! And this is with JKDAC, no Ciunas!
Now for the tweaking!
Now for the tweaking!
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ultrastream/ultrasize woes
Got a Ciunas yesterday, but i could not get low us at all (<160us) last night, but since it took me a half hour to get it to play at all, one of the reasons begin i forgot to turn the dac on. i assumed it was because i was tired and stupid and it was time to pack it in for the night.
tonight im getting variable results working at us = 120 for some tracks some of the time, others at 140 us and so on, im not seeing much of a pattern
even set up the build i brought down to Ken Morelands that got us = 30, and got same results
pulling my hair out, only consoling factor is the ciunas sounds much better than my rpac at us=30, at any ultrasize
john have you changed anything since you made Kens ciunas?
ive done loads of reboots and uninstalls and reinstalls and tried changing the usb a-b cable to a a-b adapter with no change in results
if were going to compare ultrasizes tomorrow we might have to use pearses meitner
Got a Ciunas yesterday, but i could not get low us at all (<160us) last night, but since it took me a half hour to get it to play at all, one of the reasons begin i forgot to turn the dac on. i assumed it was because i was tired and stupid and it was time to pack it in for the night.
tonight im getting variable results working at us = 120 for some tracks some of the time, others at 140 us and so on, im not seeing much of a pattern
even set up the build i brought down to Ken Morelands that got us = 30, and got same results
pulling my hair out, only consoling factor is the ciunas sounds much better than my rpac at us=30, at any ultrasize
john have you changed anything since you made Kens ciunas?
ive done loads of reboots and uninstalls and reinstalls and tried changing the usb a-b cable to a a-b adapter with no change in results
if were going to compare ultrasizes tomorrow we might have to use pearses meitner
sd card player, modded soekris dac, class a lifepo4 amp or gb class a/b amp, diy open baffle speakers based on project audio mundorf trio 10's
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Theres a fair bit of getting used to on the windows 8, but its fine when you doClaus wrote:It is up and running! Jaysus I can't get my head around this Windows 8 GUI!!! But.... Just had a semi-religous experience with Rising High Water Blues! And this is with JKDAC, no Ciunas!
Now for the tweaking!
i only found a few tweaks that were worth doing.
firewall, defender, indexing,high performance power settings, disable cpu turbo in bios
sd card player, modded soekris dac, class a lifepo4 amp or gb class a/b amp, diy open baffle speakers based on project audio mundorf trio 10's
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Claus - it takes a bit of getting used to alright. There's a bunch of video's on you tube worth watching.
Nigel: when I had the ciunas here I couldn't get much below 100.... John might know what other people are getting?
Fran
Nigel: when I had the ciunas here I couldn't get much below 100.... John might know what other people are getting?
Fran
Do or do not, there is no try
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im sure i had it at us= 30 in Kens , just cant understand why i cant reach it now, might try a fresh os if i get a chance
sd card player, modded soekris dac, class a lifepo4 amp or gb class a/b amp, diy open baffle speakers based on project audio mundorf trio 10's
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No changes, Nigenige2000 wrote:ultrastream/ultrasize woes
Got a Ciunas yesterday, but i could not get low us at all (<160us) last night, but since it took me a half hour to get it to play at all, one of the reasons begin i forgot to turn the dac on. i assumed it was because i was tired and stupid and it was time to pack it in for the night.
tonight im getting variable results working at us = 120 for some tracks some of the time, others at 140 us and so on, im not seeing much of a pattern
even set up the build i brought down to Ken Morelands that got us = 30, and got same results
pulling my hair out, only consoling factor is the ciunas sounds much better than my rpac at us=30, at any ultrasize
john have you changed anything since you made Kens ciunas?
ive done loads of reboots and uninstalls and reinstalls and tried changing the usb a-b cable to a a-b adapter with no change in results
if were going to compare ultrasizes tomorrow we might have to use pearses meitner
I too have been unable to get anything reliably under 200 which is now my default US setting. I too thought that it was just my hardware/drivers/etc & was hoping to discover what was the secret sauce to achieving the US 30 (& possibly less) in Fran's. Maybe you can double check with Ken if the 30 figure was achieved with the Ciúnas that time?
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