XXHighEnd

What?

Miind you, I'm talking about 0.9z-9b, and an OS DAC.  I'm also talking about the Built-in RAMdisk facility that comes with the X79 Extreme motherboard in the XXHighEnd PC.  That is not IMDisk.

In my system, the midrange has never shouted.  Recently, I noticed that the midrange was quite forward and every once in a while a particular piece of music would shout offensively in the midrange.   Then I realized that I had made a fairly recent BIG change:  I changed from a playback drive of spinning dedicated disk to a  2GB RAM disk.

So I changed it back and sure enough, the shouting is completely gone.  I just listened for 5 hours straight and no ear fatigue at all.  Back to normal.

Has anyone experienced this shouting?

Could it be that IMDisk is much better?  Should I try?

(This is another case where things sounded great and I should not have changed, obviously.  But I tried RAMdisk and I thought it was better and I liked the fact that it loaded faster.  Yet another short term test yielding misleading results. )

Hi Charlie,

I actually wonder whether anyone ever used the RAMDisk facility from ASRock. I myself sure didn't. Don't even know (or investigated really) how to engage it. But maybe I should try. Any starting pointers on this ?

Anyway thanks for sharing !
Peter

I've never used the Asrock ramdisk and I must admit that I did not know it even existed until about a week ago.

Thanks Peter and acg, so far.


It's the same facility as used for tuning the fan speeds and the clocks.  Within that same application, which you can run after the system boots,  it is the last Tab on the bottom left.  Simply choose a drive letter and an amount of disk space.  It will automatically restart with each boot unless you stop it.   Actually very easy to use.