How many PCI-E slots are you using and what's in them?
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Two, a GPU and a sound card.
2080Ti and Sound Blaster Zx
2080Ti and Sound Blaster Zx
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3070Ti and an LSI Megaraid 9271 8i for all my drives, thinking of adding a second LSI for even more drives.
I've found anything more than 2 devices per hub even can get a bit flaky - sometimes it is really small glitches like 1 of the devices will randomly not resume from a low power state or another device might disconnect after a few hours, etc. etc.
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Same here and agreed. I tried the sound card as an experiment and kept it. Even though I picked it up cheap, it's a lot better than onboard audio.
A lot of onboard sound, even when it has really good stats on paper, I find sounds dull.
I'm leaning away from a soundcard or onboard though with my next build and going for something external - I'm finding stuff like NVMEs induce noise which even better soundcards seem to struggle filtering and external offerings have moved on a long way from where they used to have issues with CPU usage or latency, etc.
I'm leaning away from a soundcard or onboard though with my next build and going for something external - I'm finding stuff like NVMEs induce noise which even better soundcards seem to struggle filtering and external offerings have moved on a long way from where they used to have issues with CPU usage or latency, etc.
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But for some reason, most people are influenced by stats and price, which is why a non-audio company managed to capture the market. Yet, the audiophiles have known for a very long time that stats are just the tip of the iceberg.