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Topic: Compatible Coffee Lake mITX Motherboards?

Currently have the ASrock Fatal1ty Z370 mITX which is otherwise a great motherboard, but have had absolutely no success with RME products. Tried my HDSPe PCIe card and a USB Digiface, and was not happy with the results. Tried some extensive troubleshooting as well. This is coming from a Thinkpad T410 + HDSPe ExpressCard, which worked flawlessly.

I've gave in, and have decided to swap my motherboard.

Anybody having success with Coffee Lake mITX motherboards and their HDSPe systems? Please list which ones work well.

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Re: Compatible Coffee Lake mITX Motherboards?

tseliottt wrote:

.... but have had absolutely no success with RME products. Tried my HDSPe PCIe card and a USB Digiface, and was not happy with the results. Tried some extensive troubleshooting as well...

What was the problem ?!

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Re: Compatible Coffee Lake mITX Motherboards?

ramses wrote:
tseliottt wrote:

.... but have had absolutely no success with RME products. Tried my HDSPe PCIe card and a USB Digiface, and was not happy with the results. Tried some extensive troubleshooting as well...

What was the problem ?!

Constant dropouts at moderate load. Details are in a past post of mine.

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Re: Compatible Coffee Lake mITX Motherboards?

After reading this comment from MC
https://www.forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopi … 05#p127805

You should perhaps take a more "normal" board. Regular size and maybe not ASRock.
For me they are still the cheaper version of Asus.

If you still want to have the option to use thunderbolt in the future for a recording interface,
there there is only 1 ASUS ATX board available:
https://geizhals.de/?cat=mbp4_1151& … 088_TB5AIC

Whether it works ? Should, no guarantee.
https://geizhals.de/asus-prime-z370-a-9 … ml?hloc=de

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