NVMe SSD designed for audiophiles

[MarcelNL]

1 minute ago, Ghmi said:

Adding an external power supply to your SSD is going to :

 - break your motherboard ground plane design, tremendously boosting EMI

 - introduce a huge ground loop, acting like an antenna so that those EMI can be scattered in your whole room

Rule one of mixed electronic design : proper grounding and single path of return for each load. You're only making things worse.

 

Whatever you do, your OS will be running on both CPUs. Your player program can only run on top of the OS.

whatever you do please try something and LISTEN to the results rather than theoretisizing and stating it cannot work, this is getting old fast.

[MarcelNL]

10 minutes ago, NewOldman said:

if you look at the block diagram for the MB you may understand 

 

page 119 in manual

 

I have it open in front of me...

slots 1, 2, 6 and 7 are linked to CPU 2

slots 3,4 and 5 to CPU 1 I understand you'd want to stay away from slot 3 and 4 which seems to be shared through a sortof controller.

 

I'd expect CPU to be assigned to handle most of the OS, and be linked to the OS NVME and the player program assigned to CPU 2 and the data files linked to that. 

[MarcelNL]

[MarcelNL]

Thanks ! I'll do that once I have the passive cooling in place, the two fans make listening for that sort of differences impossible.

[MarcelNL]

HAHA, I was just looking at that same picture of the Extreme ....

 

I have the passive cooling ready, just need to install it, drill some holes, cut some thread and all that.. 4 heatpipes per CPU and two 300W heat sinks for passive air cooling should do the trick.