Article: SOtM Launches sMB-Q370 Motherboard

[davide256]

Pity theres no standards committee/agreement on what makes a CPU/MOBO combination work better for audio. Until that happens, each new product just looks like a shot in the dark.

[davide256]

1 hour ago, MarcelNL said:

in mu experience thus far having many direct phases for the CPU is a bonus for sound quality, as well as having more cores do very little.

From a pure computing aspect the Intel NUC I started with was overpowered, now I'm abusing a 12 core CPU.

I guess that pro/heavy OC oriented boards will do better.

Curious, I'm now running an 11i3 NUC at the lowest CPU clock speed possible for maximum transparency with native rates. Cores don't seem to matter other than not running

the application on the same core(s) that are handling disk and eth I/O.  I do think the base CPU power matters, theres a clear difference in treble transient "crispness" between

something like an Atom processor unit vs more powerful CPU such as i3, i5, i7 etc. Haven't really seen CPU utilization impact SQ if PS is good, just causes undesirable pauses/stops

during playback. But I'm sure this gets flipped for those doing oversampling and other added post processing