XXHighEnd

Hi all, just wondering what the minimum or recommended system requirements are for running xxhighend.  I want to run it off a netbook which has a dual atom processor and a gig of ram. thanks!

Hi,

If you already have that Netbook, just go for it and give it a try. There is no reason why a random notebook with 1GB of RAM would not work. It may be sluggish on the coverart, but that's for later.

But if you don't have it yet, I would NOT buy it, or any notebook. The chances are too high that something is wrong (could be clicks), and then it will be the most difficult to solve it just because ... well, it is a notebook.

In the end it doesn't suffice for storage either. So, when you have large amounts of albums it won't fit on the disk in there, and any outboard solution takes ages (like 24 hours) to copy a disk.

A, say, small tower will always contain the processor chip you want, or the motheboard for that matter. Besides, the processor will be one of an optimized kind for "processing" which is different from optimized for energy saving. It all matters, and it also matters for sound ... :cry:

Peter

Peter,

I only use laptops, and find them absolutely fine...

"In particular, we've found that, with laptops, using battery power results in very good total correlated jitter similar to TosLink or S/PDIF (<200ps or lower at 44.1kHz, and with about the same noise floor), but using the typical switch-mode PSU with the same laptop can result in 3000–3500ps of jitter." - Matthew Bramble, Technical Director, Cambridge Audio.

Certainly, using XXHE on an old Sony laptop (with a 'real' TI 1394 chip) feeding a Weiss AFI1/PM Model Two I'm getting outstanding results... I really never knew that digital could be this good... ever.

Mani.

Thanks for sharing Mani.
It is just about "and when it does not work ok" ... then there's so few to do (exchange etc.) with a laptop.

My two cents is:
People that are into some of the xp programs like cplay go minimum sys requirements,,, I'm not sure, but I kinda felt like going the opposite direction, and with xxhe, I haven't been disappointed.  I have always dedicated the machine I was using to the music program I was using, and I think have had less trouble than others because of it, (from winamp, foobar, cplay, XXHE).  I started with a laptop that had 512MB of ram which played early versions of XXHE on XP 16/44.1.  Later I went to Vista on that laptop and upped ram to 2GB.  Now I have what you see in my sig and I couldn't be happier... wait, hmmm hehehe But Peter what have you done for me lately... heheh make me happier.

I don't trust jitter specs at all and I wonder if lower is always better, or if they're measuring in one place and ignoring another,,,, perhaps the right kind of system sympathetic jitter would be best, I don't know, but... careful of the number pushers all.

Hi all...thanks for the tips.. what was the final verdict on ssd drives for the o/s?  are they ok?

A lot of us feel there is a decent SQ upgrade to going SSD.
Here's what I wrote awhile ago.
http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=618.msg4500#msg4500