Building a DIY Music Server

[Gregory]

On 3/8/2021 at 3:20 AM, Gavin1977 said:

Apologies if this has come up before....

 

I am just thinking that if you install USB and network PCIe cards which are externally powered by a linear power supply and they only use PCIe lanes which are direct to CPU, then is the quality of ATX power really that important anymore?  Could it be that just powering just the CPU EPS with a really high quality 12v linear is the most important aspect in this scenario?

 

I was wondering the same.
Why use  filtering before a component that will generate noise anyway? Seems like a waste.
I'm probably just missing the point: high end server: filter everything :)
 

[Gregory]

7 minutes ago, Exocer said:

I also wondered this. All components generate some noise. From what I gather here, the noise can be "additive" in that if you are adding less noise before the component you will have less noise overall. This will result in better SQ.

I didn't thought about this additive aspect, good point, thanks.