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So I bought i7-7700 Kaby lake anf I am optimizing Windows 10 for audio performance. What I found online was the best way to use CPU was to set the power option to High Performance and min and max CPU to 100%. This would leave me with the CPU to work at 3.6GHz at all times. Intel updated speed shift to v2 with Kaby Lake, and I wondered if I should start using it i.e. will the CPU at constant base frequency work better/faster/smoother than with Speed Shift enabled? I am using this PC for Roon and HQPlayer.
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I plan on building a PC which will be used as a source for my DAC. Initially I planned on doing a fully fanless PC, but due to the HQPlayer's processing requirements I will have to go with Nvidia Pascal which has a fan. Hopefully there is some version which comes with a "silent" fan. So, I basically made a list of components, but I am not sure if all this will work together and if someone could check the list and/or add any suggestion I would appreciate it. Here we go: 1. Case: Streacom FC5WS EVO This is a fanless case which supports CPUs with 65W TDP 2. Power supply: HDPLEX HiFi 300W DC-ATX + Dell 330w da330pm111 3. Motherboard: GA-Z270MX-Gaming 5 This board has USB DAC-UP 2 feature which is suppose to have less noise. Not quite sure I understand it, though. 3. CPU: Intel 7th i7-7700T Has TDP of 35W which could be useful given the size of the case 4. RAM: CORSAIR DOMINATOR Platinum Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz C15 memory kit (CMD32GX4M2B3000C15) I randomly selected this one on Amazon. Would you suggest anything else? 5. HD: Samsung 850 EVO 1TB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E1T0B/AM) Also, randomly selected on Amazon. Should I go with M.2 disk instead? 6. Graphic: One of the Pascal series, either 1060, 1070 or 1080. I would certainly want to have the one which is most silent. As the case is fanless would it make sense to remove the fans and add heat sinks or this wouldn't work? Also, the case specification reads: Riser Card Required. Could someone send me a link what exactly this is? And this would be it. Am I missing anything here? Thanks and cheers!!!