Article: CAPS Twenty | Part One

[Matias]

23 minutes ago, bobflood said:

If the i5 is a 9400 I am betting it wins. I am running an 8400 on my HQP machine and it rocks. Hyperthreading  is not really necessary with HQP especially with offloading to a GPU. We shall see.

They are 10th generation, so a 10400?

I have a 9400 for the server, sweet CPU, nice balance between performance and 65W TDP. My motherboard keeps the fan stopped until 60°C so it is basically fanless all the time, and it spins only when needed. Absolute silence.

[Matias]

24 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

The computer must run Windows to work with some DACs that only work with Windows for native DSD. Small number but there are some. 

I don't know, to me this is like we customers bending over to fix an issue that the DAC manufacturer should be fixing instead. Personally this approach seems wrong to me, as if we are covering their flaws. Sorry for the rant.