This is my pc.
Is it sufficient for Roon with Muse options?
Thank
It depends on the size of your library, and how many DSP filters you want to use in Muse. Have a read of this:
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I haven’t a big library, but I use convolution, speaker, parametric EQ and sometimes upsampling. No simultaneous zones…
Then perhaps folks will post the performance of similar setups so that you can judge for yourself.
For example, I have an old 7th generation Core i5 running Roon OS, and that will handle convolution and DSD64 stereo files pretty easily:
It gets very close to its limits when downmixing 5.1 as well:
The posted RAM requirements for Windows are 8GB and not the 4GB only shown in your screenshot. And this is for Roon only. Depending on what you do while Roon is running, what other software is open/running during that time, you may require even more for smooth operation of the system.
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From a performance point of view, your system should work satisfactorily with a small to normal library. As stated above, RAM is the likely bottleneck as Windows itself consumes quite some. Have a look at it from time time.
I’ll use the pc only for Roon.
What version would be better?
Then you may want to install Rock, not Windows. Rock uses far less resources.
You should have a Windows PC/notebook in the same network to administrate the Roon Server though.
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Thank you.
Can I install Roon Rock on my pc?
It is not a NUC
If you are a tinkerer and willing to spend money on the project to overcome the shortcomings of unsupported hardware components if needed? It may also completely fail to boot at all.
If not, likely as you have to ask, just upgrade the RAM and keep Windows if you know your way around in this OS.
Note: You could also use a generic Linux distribution like for example Ubuntu instead of ROCK if you know your way around in Linux (hardware support not limited to selected Intel NUC’s then).
PS: You may have to update your Windows 10 if you want to keep it.
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I would install more RAM and give it a try. RAM is cheap. I would probably go with 2 X 8 for a total of 16 gb.
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What do you think about
Alder Lake-N N100, 16GB DDR4 +500GB M.2 2280 SSD, WIFI6, Dual HDMI, Dual Screen Display, 1000Mbps, BT 5.2
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Is it better than i36100?
Not much difference in single thread rating. (If you are really asking about the i3-6100 model without any appended letters; there are many different versions of this CPU). The N100 has more cores, which helps mainly if you play to several zones at once with DSP, and with search performance. The N100 caches are larger as well. Overall it’s probably the faster one.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/2617vs5157/Intel-i3-6100-vs-Intel-N100
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Thank you. So not worse. And also ram and ssd .
RAM depends on the operating system you will use and the size of your Roon library. With ROCK, 16 GB should work up to several hundred thousand tracks. 500BGB SSD is fine, you will never use more than a few percent.
Rock is available for windows?
No. ROCK is an installer that installs RoonOS (a lightweight and minimum Linux variant) and Roon Server on top. Any previously installed OS is removed.
However, Roon Server is available for Linux (x86), Windows 10/11 (not ARM) and Mac.
The amount of RAM required to run Roon Server will be, for a given library, more or less the same on all of them. However, the OS itself also has a RAM requirement and this is less for RoonOS (ROCK) than it is for Windows (and, probably, MacOS as well although I have no experience of this).
Consequently, the amount of RAM (and disk space) recommended for ROCK installs tends to be less, for a given library size, than that recommended for Windows or MacOS.
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Thank you. May I use Rock from Usb pendrive?
No, but you can install it from a USB stick onto a compatible NUC computer. Please read:
Thank you, but I’d prefer not to delete Windows OS