Popular Post Miska Posted July 8, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted July 8, 2019 7 hours ago, rickca said: High end motherboards are including an ESS Sabre 9218 DAC with WIMA capacitors, for example https://www.aorus.com/X570-AORUS-XTREME-rev-10 I just put my server upgrade together with Z390 AORUS MASTER motherboard with ESS audio (reason I purchased the mobo was their DAC-UP USB ports, not the onboard audio). The onboard audio even supports DSD. CPU is i7-8086K and RAM is HyperX Predator DDR4-2400 with CL12. No fancy GPU's though. I will run some measurements for the audio when I find time, I will need to use horribly long cables because I don't want to bother to move my measurement rig or the computer from rack. I will also run some measurements for the EVGA card when I find time. No long cables needed for that, I will put it in my i7-7700K + RTX2080 Windows workstation. 7 hours ago, rickca said: How do such motherboard DACs get their input? Obviously, it isn't USB. PCIe just like for example the RME HDSPe pro-audio cards I have. rickca and ferenc 1 1 Signalyst - Developer of HQPlayer Pulse & Fidelity - Software Defined Amplifiers Link to comment
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