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RE: Problems with cMP shell

. . . two or three little dropouts per track.

Glad it's working but you should not be getting any drop-outs.

However, cMP^2 was always intended for - and is undeniably at its best with - a dedicated computer or at least a dedicated OS install.

Have you done the optimisations described in Chapter 7 of the web site write-up (the one called, surprisingly, "Optimisations")? Have you disabled any firewall or AV software? And so on. Unless you have, I wouldn't worry about dropouts for now - they are unlikely to persist in a dedicated setup. Are you using cPlay to "upsample"? If so, try turning it off. Might tell you something.

Would it be worth to go on with [an Atom 230] mobo?

I use a single-core Atom mobo (Fit-PC2, 1.1 GHz), no upsampling. With a USB DAC, it sounds much better than the recommended Biostar and Gigabyte motherboards ever did.

As a test, I find I can downsample from 96 to 44.1 KHz but not from 192 KHz. That suggests that your Foxconn board would work fine with 44.1 KHz material provided you don't upsample it and that hi-res data should also be fine. If you upsample, YMMV.

Bear in mind that cPlay is optimised for the SSE4 instructions set while the Atom supports only SSSE3 instructions. Thus, it follows that I don't know what I'm missing but, I suspect, not that much.

Given the price of a 500 MB 2.5" HDD these days, I can confidently recommend trying your Foxconn board with cMP^2 provided you can live with the above limitations. I can.

HTH

Dave


Edits: 04/05/10
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