Hi Ingo,

thanks for your feedback.

Two questions:

1. On the VIA, was it noise in the audio path of an external soundcard,

or the built-in one? I am planning to use a Delta66 breakout box in my project, hopefully to get around this problem.

2. For the fanless Intel, what kind of extra cooling did you use?

best! d.

Ingo Scherzinger wrote:

Hi Derek,

we are doining a project with mini itx boards here. I have had very bad experience with different VIA chipset boards (computer noise in the audio path) so we went for the Intel D201GLY or D201GLY2 (fanless - needs extra cooling) with a Midiman Audiophile 24/96. It needs a BIOS update to run with the Midiman card, however. CPU is 1,4 GHz Celeron. Very clean audio running on a buffer of 64 or 128 samples.

The board has a SIS chipset which really surprised me to work but it actually did! It also has a better a better performance that VIA boards at the same CPU speed. On top of it it is the cheapest mini itx board at all.

Ingo