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@Fzman, I am working on getting you more specific current requirement.
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ROBSCIX, thanks for taking the time to contact asus to find that out for us. i say 'us' because it seems like several people want to pursue this. John Swenson has posted a very good psu which may work, or need some adjusting to supply the relevant current for both the 5v and 12v lines. i hope i didn't come across acting as if you owed us that info. if i did, i am sorry. seems like as a reviewer, you;ve got better access to asus, so i was simply hoping that they would be willing to give you the info, without too much additional effort on your part.
i am going to try to build the 12v part of it today, and see what happens. so far the card, feeding my main speaker-based reference system is sounding very good. it is the most natural of the ones i've tried so far --- juli@ analog via rca and balanced, juli@ via spdif coax via several dacs, and two different versions of the prodigy hd-2, both re-op-amped both via toslink and analog rca.
that said, it could be a bit more dynamic, and because it is so full-bodied sounding, it seems to lack a bit of top-end sparkle and samp. on the other hand, it is not bright or screechy, and is very analog sounding.
it barely fits in my gigabyte mobo, because the single ram module is sort of in the way of the back of it. nothing in the mobo manual specifies that either slot is mandatory when using a single ram module, so i am going to move it over, next time i power down.
more to follow.........