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Re: Further Isolation of the Silverstone PCIe - USB Card

« Reply #75 on: February 03, 2014, 11:39:43 pm »

So last night I re-soldered the wires in the loom for the ground pins on the x1 lane (A12, A15, A18, B13, B16, B18). This has _completely_ solved my "fluoro light" issue. So now my loom is delivering linear power directly to the Silverstone card but the x1 data lanes and grounds are all in tact.

I will listen to this setup for a while and then play with isolating the NOS1 USB with its black wire again.

See below for the current PCIe pinout for the loom.

Cheers,

Anthony

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Re: Further Isolation of the Silverstone PCIe - USB Card

« Reply #76 on: February 04, 2014, 10:37:25 am »

Bert, I moved your post to here : Re: XX Further Isolation of the Silverstone PCIe - USB Card.

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Re: Further Isolation of the Silverstone PCIe - USB Card

« Reply #77 on: February 05, 2014, 04:43:07 am »

I have now listened to the latest incarnation of the loom for about two days now. To verify my findings I recenty removed the loom and ran the isolated Silverstone and NOS1 as so that I could hear the "reference" again. All that I can say is that sound is well ahead when the loom is in place. If I had to hazard a guess, I would say that the sound since I re-connected the grounds on the x1 lane is better than when they were disconnected. Happy days.

It seems as though feeding cleaner power directly to the Silverstone card helps the sound. Changes to the grounding arrangement of the card do not seem important from a sq perspective (apart from perhaps the faceplate isolation from pc chassis ground) so perhaps the improvement is as simple as providing cleaner power to the crystal on the Silverstone. The only other item on that card that may be affected is the USB Host Controller IC.

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Re: Further Isolation of the Silverstone PCIe - USB Card

« Reply #78 on: February 05, 2014, 08:54:26 am »

Hi Anthony,

Glad this worked out great. As a bonus your setup is a lot safer too!

You made me curious: today I wil have an adapter on e-order as local stores cannot supply.

regards, Coen


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Re: Further Isolation of the Silverstone PCIe - USB Card

« Reply #79 on: February 05, 2014, 10:13:02 am »

That's great Coen. It will be good to get another opinion on this. Peter nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

I will leave the loom in place for a while now and investigate windows 7.

Regards,

Anthony


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