anyone have experience with the cirrus7 nimbus v3 with the i7-8700T processor and ROCK? informed opinions also highly welcomed as to its suitability as a ROCK server.
the higher 35W TDP is fine as i would use optical isolation just before the DAC to eliminate all upstream electrical noise rather than an LPS to the computer.
at a later time i might install windows OS and run as a roon core server with HQPlayer. this would also be a plan B should ROCK cease to be compatible with the nimbus v3 at some point in the future.
The above is a thread about the Asus motherboard but the thread starter did not use ROCK. However I think ROCK should be OK. I am using it on a 310 motherboard.
thanks for the thread link – very nice build. although not as knowledgable as the thread OP, it is tempting to give something like that a try… provided, there were a script/recipe to follow…
in any event, good to know the asus h310t motherboard has been successfully used with roon – albeit roon core server on top of a linux OS.
thanks - i have also been looking at the quiet PC NUC fanless. good to know it has worked for you and that ubuntu server is an option to run a roon core.
and yes - it is quite strange there a not many fanless NUC options in the US.
Hello
Bought a few weeks ago the Cirrus Nimbus v3, i3-9100t, with 16gb RAM and threw in it a 2tb SSD.
Works great. Obviously super silent and lightning fast with a 20k tracks library.
I don’t do up sampling but much more responsive than my i5 2014 Mac mini.
And it is “beautiful” (to the extent it can apply to a fanless PC).
Also, the seller pre installed for me ROCK (or MOCK?) as it is compatible with it. So I just had to plug it to my network.
Hope that helps.
@aKnyght
I built my own silent computer based on a Streacom FC5 housing. It’s so much fun building your own computer! Installing Linux/Debian is not plug and play, but you don’t need to be an expert to install a base system, install the packages (dependencies) for ROON and run the ROON installer. Then you don’t have to worry about compatibility with ROCK. I’m sure there are a lot of forum members willing to help. In the future I want to built a new computer based on an HDPLEX housing. Great stuff!
your are so right – i had a tremendous amount of fun building my audio transport to run ROCK.
this is the solution i ended up building which used an HDPLEX chasis. it has worked flawlessly and the SQ is superb, particularly after adding the fiber networking