They all were important because I came from the audiophile world but knew only the usual things about computers, so thanks to Gerard, Paphran, Telstar, Mani, Pedal …and of course to Peter.Īs I said in other thread I´ve built this PC with the intention of being adapted as much as possible to the evolution of XXHighEnd and in my case to work also in combination with the Phasure NOS1 dac. I´ve had in to consideration the advises that some of you gave me to start with it. I hope it can help some of you interested in building a computer for XXHighEnd. This is a 'Why? and because' little guide about why I´ve chosen some parts and not others in order to build the PC. Now I´d like to show it to you all in the easiest possible way and mentioning just the most important issues. CPU usage during 32/705600 playback is still under 1%.'Īfter more than one month and a half looking for parts, reading as much as possible, finding the best places to buy, connecting with the right person to put all the parts together and also learning how to do it myself, I´ve finished my new PC. No problem whatsoever with anything (also not track loading and FLAC conversions etc.). For example, currently I run my i7/3930K machine at 350MHz per core (yep, that is 0.35GHz). On the other components, and in general for all that follows, I think the comments and recommendations are still valid.ġ About the processor speed Peter made an observation (April 24, 2013): 'Generally it is not about the speed at all but how the processor can (quickly) deal with interrupts, memory and a lot more. Of course if I´d build my computer today I´d choose a faster processor but, as I say, not the last model, just to save some money (unless of course money is not a problem for you).

I´m still using today (April/2013) the processor you can see below and be sure that if it wouldn´t work well I´d change it. It doesn´t mean that you must choose the latest processor in the market, but one of the previous ones that will be much cheaper and for sure with enough power to work well. Consult on this regard the signatures of other members of the forum (mostly the ones with more posts and of course of Peter). For the ones that are consulting this post let me tell you that, as we all know, computers and its parts become obsolete very soon, so it is important to understand that you should choose to build your music PC, as a general rule, the fastest possible processor 1, with as much as possible cores and with a motherboard appropriate for that processor.

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