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Re: Not necessarily

On latency/jitter stuff I suspect its a combination of both. I'll need to do more research. For now I want to test the Zalman TNN-300 case - it does a few things right and PSU may even better Enermax. I use a basic mini tower case with heavy non-metallic object on top (the added inertia helps). For EMI shielding, I use Quantum Physics noise disruptor on soundcard (other methods risk short circuiting).

IDE/SATA. Yes you can buy shielded IDE cables and it would help. I still prefer SATA as you can disable IDE. I found playback latency to be important - SATA latency has no impact (as long as Foobar is never starved of data and drive has at least 8MB cache). Makes sense on video stutter as video application demands factors more data from disk. SATA RAID 0 would solve this.

BTW - On toslink, yes DAC should do reclocking - I use AA Prestige SE. I like your point on under-clocking. It got me thinking on how to do this permanently with Core 2 Duo processor. This processor is great as it optimises for low power (and therefore lower voltage, lower RF radiation, harmonics) - current suggested setup in paper does this. But during playback, clock frequency hops to higher levels to its max of 1.86GHz. Fortunately these (voltage) transitions occur infrequently. But getting it to stay at its lowest level permanently is best - I'll post a solution.

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