Apologizes ...

Ehh ..


This should have said

- Device Buffer Size at 512 (as in the Device itself);

Is it now more clear ?
So both in XX as in the "soundcard" 512.
Next Q1 to 48.

Sorry for being slow, but what is your actual XX setting for "Device Buffer Size" with this set up so that your Q1=48? Am assuming that your "Device Buffer at 512 (as in the Device itself)" means that the latency setting in the Juli@ card is 512?

Misery, mistery ... but thinking you merely meant the latter, I agree. But it must be some kind of bandwidth problem on the PCI buss. The stupiest thing of it is that I can incur for it myself on my current mobo, if it's only in its default settings, PLUS I never got round of the source of the problem, because I couldn't find one individual setting which cures it. It is more of them together, and I still don't know whether it is all of them, or one of them can be re-set to normal. This is because it can take such a long time before it starts to happen (over 4 minutes) and then in such a mild form that it really needs a quiet piano before you will observe it.

Let's not forget that Gerard had it too on his "old" motherboard, but only after installing a new OS *plus* sliding in a new SSD, or something like that. On that matter, it just as well could be using an SSD in some north south whatever bridge causing it. In that case flashing the mobo helped, while Gerard actually didn't change any BIOS setting.

So that is why I say that some designers forgot about something (spec) to comply with;
Streaming 32/384 audio isn't all that much for PCI bandwidth, but still it isn't done, normally.
The other day I have been looking for changing the PCI latency on individual devices, triggered by I think Nick who said something about it. Although officially this can't work anymore from off Vista, I think it still can. I didn't have the time to work it out further, but if you ask me, I bet the culprit is in this direction. Something which hogs the PCI buss (can easily be a video card) because of too high (!) latency settings of that (it hogs the buss for say 20ms while audio needed it after 5ms already).

Peter


PS: Gerard, did you bring back that mobo, or is it available for testing ?

Hi Gerard,

Hope you had a wonderful holiday!

I understand that you are not successful in fixing the slow sound from your new mobo. Me too. I tried disable and enable setting as much as I can without success. I also moved interface card ES 1095 from one PCIe slot to another just to try out if this can fix slow sound. The last move of interface card led to some damage to my GA 880 mobo. I remembered clearly what I did. I shut down my PC and forgot to unplug the power cord. Then I removed ES 1095 from PCIe x1 and sliced it into PCIe x8 slot. All in a sudden PC boot automatically. While in a puzzle, I switched off the PSU immediately while booting. As a result of this,  this mobo could no longer detect Juli@ card and the network adapter disappeared from the system. However, when I removed the interface card from the mobo, network adapter came back but running without stability. Network connection comes and goes randomly.

Lesson learnt : always unplugged the PSU before playing with the H/W.

Therefore I have never had a chance to fix this slow sound on GA880 since then

I am now using a newly released Gigabyte G1 Sniper mobo for gamer. I run i7 970 hex cores which will be useful for 0.9Z-5 . Before ending up with Sniper I tested some other Gigabyte mobo in which report can be found in other thread.

Slow sound is still a misery for now.

Praphan   

But did you also try them ALL at the same time ?

Stupid ...


Careful. I don't have time for this really. Well, getting a board like that is not the problem, but exchanging it is. It really takes me hours to built out/in the disks and I'm short on hours already ...

But Gerard, can you tell what your sequence of trials was here ?

Hi Gerard,

Does the suggested BIOS settings above by Peter help?

Can you share more information about the slow motion soundddddddd?

1. Was this slow sound just only heard with hires materials or red book + upsampling? The more up sampling rate the slower the sound.

2. Did you try other player such as Foobar? Slow motion should not be heard. Set NOS1 SW 5 to off to activate both channels.

3. If # 2 above is true for you, sorry to say that your mobo is not compatible with NOS1. I had GA 880GA UD3H with faster northbridge than yours. Still slow motion heard.

However if you can fix it please share.

Mobo Sick
 

Very nice... Looks like Darth Vader's TIE fighter.

That 50 degrees Celcius, wow, I didn't think of that at all. Luckily this is normal painting, because the powder coating occurs at a much higher temperature, and then I'm not sure what may happen (to little plastic parts etc.).

Hi Gerard,

Your new color looks very formal and will match with the rest of my gears in the listening room. With all due respect Peter, I like blue as well. But it is too strong for the rest of my gears.

Gerard, would you like to share it here or rather use PM ?

Thanks,
Praphan