Snakeoil Firmware - 1.1.1 (Blind Testing Update 1)

[Mivera]

I'll try again. However I discovered the cpu problem. He changed the "multicore cpu" option in the settings to have 3 states. off, auto and on. When the box is just grey instead of a checkmark, it's in auto mode. And auto mode doesn't work in Snakeoil. Must be on. 

You mean multicore DSP? Presumably this is a setting to use > 1 CPU for DSP.

Did you enable CPUset? And if so, how many CPUs did you set for user? Also, what's the number of cores and threads available on this PC?    

Yes that's what I mean. Actually after further testing we are still getting more CPU power with Windows. We can't run poly-sinc-XTR up to DSD 256 on Snakeoil, but runs fine on Windows with 55-60% CPU load. Never tried the CPUset. My local client just decided to run Windows. It's a pretty nice computer too just use as a blackbox audio only server. However other clients just want a blackbox audio server so I will look into this CPUset and see if it can allow full potential from this CPU in Snakeoil.

Here's all the info on the CPU:

https://ark.intel.com/products/130409/In...-4-20-GHz-

Benchmark:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu...Hz&id=3209


Pretty amazing to have that kind of power on a PC the size of a VHS tape! It's 100W TDP, but half of the chip is the GPU. Since the GPU isn't being used in Snakeoil, the cooling system only needs to cool half of what it's designed for. So it can pretty much run at full turboboost full time without throttling down from overheating.