Hi
I’m building a dedicated HQPlayer PC and was wondering where I should spend the money
When it comes to CPU for a given price is one better off investing in speed or cores?
Do buckets of RAM help?
Will any NVIDIA card help with CUDA offload?
As always thank you to the Community
What are you planning on useing HQP to do. If you are thinking of upsampling to DSD 512, then an i7, 16 GB RAM.
Probably less ambitious than that Dan
More about using the assorted filters rather than realtime upsampling (at least for the moment!)
If you are doing stereo, quad-core with high as possible clock speed is good. If you want to do lot of stuff with Roon while playing music, six-core could be a good option too.
Only to limited extent, but something like 8 GB is good minimum baseline since Roon will likely eat quite a bit too. But HQPlayer likes fast and wide RAM. So keeping CPU’s memory channels populated with fast RAM helps.
Not any, it should be fairly fast. If it is significantly slower than the main CPU, offload will likely cause more harm than good. The new 1060/1070/1080 should be good depending on what you plan to do.
It is really hard to give any generic response, because there are so many different possibilities with each having different requirements and optimal configuration.
Thank you Jussi