Similar to mine, but with a lot more GPU, lol. Since, as great as Asus might claim it to be, that highly-modified little Realtek ALC1150 still sounds kinda mediocre and still suffers from motherboard electrical limitations (meaning it's not reliable and can sometimes crap out or just sound bad, when it really shouldn't). As an added bonus, the audio card could be physically and electrically separated from the GPUs by a greater distance (and thus less prone to all the coil whine and other EMI generated by those VRM phases and magnetic fans) so "hissing"/"humming" audio artifacts should be less pronounced. While it's sometimes best to keep the X99-to-CPU DMI 2.0 bandwidth clear (as it can already be saturated by data throughput of all drives, network, and USB functions), audio streams add a puny load and can also make some use of X99-integrated Intel 7.1 HD Audio acceleration hardware for added audio channels/processing. The sound card is fine in a PCIe 2.0 slot, it uses only a tiny fraction of the total bus bandwidth anyways. Since you have 8 spare PCIe 3.0 lanes, you might as well put your USB 3.1 device into the third "GPU" slot for the most direct (and therefore fastest possible) connection to processor and RAM. There are plenty of slots on the RVE, lol, even when the optimum x16/x16 GPU configuration is populated. Join Date Mar 2015 Reputation 152 Posts 2,719
Realtek alc1150 vs direct x 10 pro#
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