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Luckbad:
I know of three manufacturers who talk about clean 5v power into all or some of their USB ports: Asus, MSI, and Gigabyte.
I've been having motherboard problems, so I used my protection plan to replace my motherboard with a Gigabyte Z97X Gaming GT.
It has USB DAC-UP on two ports.
I thought that just meant clean 5v power to them, but I was happy to discover another bios setting: You can turn off the power on those ports!
If you have a self-powered dac, you can give it a super clean signal. That's awesome.
Luckbad:
Finally have the new motherboard running completely with Windows 10. Good lord it sucks to go to Windows 10. You can't just install Windows 10 if you get the free upgrade--they literally make it impossible even if you hang out on the phone with them for 2 hours (I tried).
You have to install your previous version of Windows, then likely you will have to get all of the latest updates (I had to this time, I didn't last), then you can install Windows 10 on top of it. What a pain. I guess this is how they're going to sell copies (make you give up after a few reinstalls).
Now... I don't have a DAC to plug those fancy ports into. I had to sell all my best crap for now so I'm just using a sound card.
Koloth:
Well ... you do get Win10 for free. And once you have performed the upgrade from a running Win7 or Win8 system you're free to install Win10 from scratch as many times as you want. Turns out (shocker!) Microsoft isnt in the business of giving their product away for free to just about anyone, instead they only give it away for free to users who have bought from them inside the last six years (!). How dare they, right?
Azteca X:
--- Quote from: Luckbad on September 24, 2015, 12:20:29 AM ---I've been having motherboard problems, so I used my protection plan to replace my motherboard with a Gigabyte Z97X Gaming GT.
It has USB DAC-UP on two ports.
I thought that just meant clean 5v power to them, but I was happy to discover another bios setting: You can turn off the power on those ports!
If you have a self-powered dac, you can give it a super clean signal. That's awesome.
--- End quote ---
That is very cool. I thought it just had some slightly cleaner power as well.
cspirou:
Clones Audio has a power supply for the Mac Mini
http://www.clonesaudio.com/#!product/prd1/4303637915/power-station-mac-mini-spec.
It's basically a linear regulated 12V supply
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