I suppose any usb3 card is better than onboard usb2.
So for 30€ i could bit the bullet and get this one. It shouldn't harm in my current setup.

The fall creators update may be worth a look.
But for now I'll get 14393 that is tested well-sounding.

I dont have enough memory for a ramdisk install, the ssd will have to do for now.

Hi Peter,

TYVM for the reply.

Looks like I was wrong! and my CPU is 64 bit:
https://ark.intel.com/products/35300/Intel-Pentium-Processor-E5300-2M-Cache-2_60-GHz-800-MHz-FSB
I dont know why I thought it wasn't. The low frequency I think helps with the overall good sound I was always getting from this machine.

Anyway, last night I went ahead and got the 32bit image of build 14393, and installed offline from usb (too old mainboards do not support that, but gladly mine does). My concern was lack of driver. Instead, everything works. I just had to fiddle to manually install intel gfx.

Note: W10 has indeed 32 bit versions but 2016 server (which I also wanted to try has not).

I have to verify about RDC because I would prefer to not buy another license. This is the first thing I have to do before getting a new image 64bit and install it. ha
Second thing is to verify if xxhigend 2.09 isn't too much a resource hog for this computer.

I do not have a usb3 port on this mainboard, so I think I will get a pci-e usb3 card: is any chipset preferred (Renesas or? Intel afaik doesn't make second market usb cards)

I downloaded the latest xxhe version 2.09 and plan to go straight with it. I think I will have to pm or mail you for activation code, as I have read.

Thanks also for the heads up about future mainboards and processors. 40 cores xeons are way too expensive for what they offers wrt 24 cores ones IMO.
I'm aware of the Stealth PC you offer but I prefer to build things myself, and keep my case, but if possible I may want to buy the mainboard and LPS from you. Looking at the inside pictures it shoudl fit. We will talk about this later this year.

Anybody tried 16299?

Hi Peter and everyone,

I just got back listening to music after moving to a new house, and I fired up my old dedicated PC, which now is pretty old (see signature) but works like new since the OS has run always offline. It has w7 home 32bit (the cpu is not 64bit unfortunately) 4GB of ram and the original optimizations. Xxhe 0.9-4.1 sounds BETTER than the newer versions probably because the CPU isn't much powerful.
I have just upgraded the USB interface of my DAC with the singxer f1 which is isolated (limited to 384k but oh well.). At the moment I cannot afford other upgrades since I have still to do more renovations.

But I want to try windows10 since I have a spare 128GB SSD removed from my work PC... which build should I put on? I would shoot for the creator's update like I use on my work PC (build 16299) but nobody seems to use it yet.
It will be offline for now, so no issue with updates and such. and I do have a license for a Home edition.
I can download any iso and hopefully a usb installation will work.

Other random questions:
1) which is this Silverstone usb card I read in some posts? My pc doesnt have a lineas psu yet, but the DAC usb is isolated: should I get one? Or another pci-e usb card maybe.

2) I'm gonna roll some usb cables and I'm also building one without 5V and a special ground setting, which I will share if it works.

3) I want to use my android tablet as remote/screen/controller for it, MS RPC is the best app available? and also it requires the PC to be connected to my LAN? I have an ethernet port close to it for this eventuality. No wifi onboard but a card could be added if better.

Also, I will be upgrading it with a manycore 64 bit cpu later this year. What are your thoughts about AMD epyc (32 cores)? I do need a mATX or even better ITX motherboard to save space inside the case (which I'm NOT changing).

hehee

Then the fpga needs to be programmed and a custom driver written. All current implementations support only 24/192 although multichannel. The bandiwth is way more than USB2 and is not a constraint.

I expected to see already something in this direction but nada, zero. The AES67 standard is 2 years old already. Yes, I'm talking about Dante/Ravenna here.
Alas, after 5 years (3 of which I have been away and the others moving) I expected to see usb3 receivers as well with multichannel DXD but I was wrong. There are none.

On paper AOIP is superior to USB, the cables do NOT resent as much from pc-induced noise, and it shouldnt be harder to implement.

Yep, SQ should improve.
xxhe likes many cores and lots of ram to load bigger portion of files (although sometimes low SFS are more liked by the community)
4 cores and 8GB would be the very minimum If i were to build my dedicated PC now.

I'm not getting W8 on any of my computers. It doesn't improve anything I like and uses an horrible UI.
If and when there will be usb audio class 2 native drivers, i'll think about it.

Amazingly transparent, I love it.

Seasonic are among the best PSU, fanless or not.

Yeah I could use a ramdrive for that. But Only 4GB on this pc

Way overpriced thing.
You can do that with any usb cable where u cut the 5v, for lets say 10€.
But I dont think the NOS1 usb input takes any power from the computer anyway and it is well isolated (right, Peter?).

Anyone tried this interface yet?
Looks promising (up to 32/384k with KS).

Link: http://amanero.com/

I'm not sure I understand if you managed to play @176.4k or jist 88.4 with the waveIO.