FS: Fanless 8i5 & 8i7 NUCs in Akasa cases ideal for ROCK - to order

[GregD (Greg Dowling)]

Perhaps not the best place to repeat the discussions from elsewhere eg

NUC 8th Gen still the best option? and best retailers?

Brand new to the Roon-verse - introduced yesterday and currently drowning in all the info to learn. Do already know I want to get a Core up and running asap - and reads like NUC 8th gen may still be the best option. Just wanted to check that is till the case and there hadn’t been any recent developments, or announcements of ‘imminent’ updates to supported NUCs list that I’ve missed. Would appreciate any recommendations as to retailers that consistently have very competitive NUC prices. Thanks …

Is ROCK supported on Intel 10th Gen NUC? [yes]

I didn’t seriously think NUC10 would be worse than NUC8, but I did more reading for i5 and i7 class offerings, and checked a bunch of benchmarks. GPU of NUC10 is definitely worse, so Windows users should forget it. ROCK does not depend on the GPU though. In terms of CPU, while single-thread performance is (I think) the most important for Roon DSP, it’s not entirely consistent across different benchmarks, but if I have to pick a winner it’d also be NUC8. For the purpose of Roon, my preliminar…

I’m sure we can agree that the 8i5 and 8i7 make very good ROCK machines.