Intel NUC with ROCK processor advice

[wklie (Peter Lie)]

Based on your requirements of DSP for convolution, 8th generation, and quietness, it reminds me of:

Cirrus7 fanless i7, will it work?

I got my Cirrus7 Nimbini v2 fanless with i7 and it is awesome! It looks extremly well, is Lightning-fast, fanless and rock stable on heavy load. The aluminium outside has about 30 degrees on idle or playing music with no or light conversion. On heavy load like first scan of music library and analyzing the music files it‘s getting really hot on the outside (around 40 degrees), but that‘s a good thing, because the heat is transported away from CPU. I tested the original Intel NUC i5 too. In com…