Hardware Advice

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Personally if you were just running roon on it I’d skip windows and go for a NUC with ROCK on it. (10 year Microsoft employee )

Yeah, we all keep telling him that, but does he listen?

I would never say that.

This is the key point -

Personally if you were just running roon on it I’d skip windows

Can't afford Nucleus

I have a couple of Intel NUCs, an i3 and an i5. You don’t a fanless case. The NUCs are dead quiet and the fan keeps them cooler than without. You don’t need ROCK. WIN 10 works just fine and you retain the capability to run other programs besides Roon. You will get both automatic Roon updates and WIN 10 updates.

@Geoff_Coupe, et. al. and I have agreed to disagree on this. I don’t understand placing ROCK/RoonOS on a virginal NUC and turning a potentially multi-purpose media machine (or whatever) into solely a “record player”.

Nucleus hardware running ROCK is a different matter. That seems to have been developed for Joe Blow who walks into a HiFi shop to buy a system and doesn’t want the hassle of a computer setup. If you put ROCK on a NUC, instead of Windows, you have negated that design objective.