Build a dedicated Audio PC

[sima66]

Hi Shaun, Looks like a nice mini board and the asus bios menu seems a lot easier than my capszuma standard intel board. I can see how the old horseradish mistake could happen! Might be easier to start a thread on a mini atx board. There is bound to be people interested. this thread has gone off the wall but is certainly a good read from the beginning for people interested in going off the planet on their build

Tony, have you done some tweaking in the BIOS of your Zuma?

[nige2000]

Hi Shaun, Looks like a nice mini board and the asus bios menu seems a lot easier than my capszuma standard intel board. I can see how the old horseradish mistake could happen! Might be easier to start a thread on a mini atx board. There is bound to be people interested. this thread has gone off the wall but is certainly a good read from the beginning for people interested in going off the planet on their build

Tony, have you done some tweaking in the BIOS of your Zuma?

Think I set some if it one day I was there

Still not mastered the Intel bios?
Certainly not as simple as other manufacters bios's

[tony]

As outlined above I adjusted the ram voltage and clock speed. Yes there was some heavy breathing over my shoulder as I skilfully negotiated the intel bios settings but that was just a coincidence of timing!

[Sligolad]

The one good part of the Intel Bios I miss on my currenr MSI board is the ability to go in and shut down all unused USB ports.

[tony]

The one good part of the Intel Bios I miss on my currenr MSI board is the ability to go in and shut down all unused USB ports.

What you talking about Willis?? Did I miss something in my exhaustive adjustments?

[Sligolad]

Forgotten most of it now but I think there are 12 or 14 USB ports on the Intel Zuma board and I used to switch off all but the 2 or 3 i needed in Bios...might have some screenshots of that Bios page knocking about so will post if I find any.

[sima66]

Hi Shaun, Looks like a nice mini board and the asus bios menu seems a lot easier than my capszuma standard intel board. I can see how the old horseradish mistake could happen! Might be easier to start a thread on a mini atx board. There is bound to be people interested. this thread has gone off the wall but is certainly a good read from the beginning for people interested in going off the planet on their build

Tony, have you done some tweaking in the BIOS of your Zuma?

Think I set some if it one day I was there

Still not mastered the Intel bios?
Certainly not as simple as other manufacters bios's

That's why I asked! :(((
If anybody remember all the BIOS tweaking what improved the sound and how they did it?

I tried to find and disable the SpeedStep (EIST), Turbo, C-State, but I could not find them!!! I found the step by step instructions on Google, but when I'm going into my Zuma BIOS, there is always something missing! :(((((

[adolfo.a.aguiar]

Nige2000,

I see in your signature that you have a Haswell I3 @ 800MHz. It is my understanding that Haswell I3s have the CPU multiplier locked. Please enlighten me how you achieved that.
Tks.

[nige2000]

There's no prob setting the frequency
Though I'm not familiar with the 1200kpr
Best ask some of the guys using that board
Usually just a matter of setting the multiplier to 8

[randytsuch]

I wanted to say thank you to nige2000 for posting the info on modding a Silverstone USB card.

I was planning to buy an "audiophile" usb card, but I like the idea of DIY mods and saving money, so I ordered the 4 port Silverstone USB3.0 card, and modded it today.

In my mod I added a DC in jack to the bracket, and connect a little linear walwart to the jack, to feed it around 10VDC.

I also added a 7805 to provide power to the molex connector, so I don't need to connect anything to the molex in.
I have an Amanero card on the other side, but it receives 3.3VDC from another source, so the 5V USB only powers one chip.

At first I tried a fancy 3.3VDC regulator I had, but it takes too long to come up to 3.3, and the USB port didn't work.

So I just threw in a LM317 with a couple resistors and one cap across R2.

And a couple little pieces of tape to isolate the 3.3V pins of the connector and it worked :).

I'm running both the 7805 and the LM317 off of the DC jack with 10VDC. At some point I'll probably make or buy a better 3.3 reg to power the card with, but I got it working with an external reg so I'm happy.

I still need to buy an oscillator and power it so I can change out the crystal.

Randy