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Title: 'Cool When Idle', 'Balanced Load' and SFS Post by: manisandher on March 01, 2013, 01:29:39 pm I've had the house all to myself today (kids at nursery and wife at work) and have taken the opportunity to play around with XX for a while. Nothing amazing to report sound-wise, but I now have an issue that I didn't have before I started playing around...
Most of my listening has been done switching between CWI=0 and 1. I'm not totally happy with either and think the sweet spot is somewhere in between. So I started playing around with SFS too. It's been on SFS=1.0 for quite a while with no issues whatsoever. But I wanted to hear what CWI=1 sounded like with BL=43 and SFS=2, so I changed SFS to 2.0. OK, quite nice. I wanted to compare to SFS=1.0 again. But no music. Rebooted, but still no music. Back to SFS=2.0, and music again. Hmm. OK, I took BL up to 85 again and SFS down to 1.0... and again, no music. Quickly tried CWI=0, but no music. Back to CWI=1 and BL=43. Still no music. Played around with some Q1 settings and got a few error messages (can't remember exactly what they said, but something like "914500 needs to be bigger than 1000000"). Back to SFS=2.0 and music again. Hmm. I switched the PC off and went down to the basement. My liquid-cooling heat sinks were much warmer than I have ever felt them before. Certainly not 'class A amp' hot, but quite warm. OK, it could be the brief time with BL=85 and CWI=0. But I've used these exact settings for much longer durations with previous versions of XX and the heat sinks have never been this warm. And I still can't go back down to SFS=1.0. Strange. Mani. Title: Re: 'Cool When Idle', 'Balanced Load' and SFS Post by: PeterSt on March 01, 2013, 02:00:02 pm Mani,
Not that I have a clue to your SFS=1, but how do your XTweaks settings show when you boot into Normal OS ? But sure strange indeed ! Peter Title: Re: 'Cool When Idle', 'Balanced Load' and SFS Post by: manisandher on March 10, 2013, 10:26:11 pm I think I've figured out the problem that was preventing me from going below SFS=2.0...
I think XX somehow deactivated itself, whilst I was still in minimized state. This seems to have happened as I was playing around with XTweaks a week or so ago. Today I tried the 'wallpaper test' and was baffled as to why I was getting a yellow background and not a red one. So I re-activated and the red wallpaper returned. I have no idea why the SFS would not go below 2.0 in non-activated mode. I'm assuming that although I've had PA set to '-' for the last week that I've actually had no PA since XX was deactivated. Weird. But all is now working, and the SQ is phenomenal again. Mani. |