Intel NUC with ROCK processor advice

[wklie (Peter Lie)]

Then I suppose the DSP processes are run on other cores which is why I suppose more cores are better? Or perhaps an older 2 core i7 might work?

Audio processing per zone: Convolution uses only a single core, but upsampling to DSD can optionally use 2 cores. Audio analysis can use more, and there are other needs like library management and UI:

DSD512 - Is this even possible? [yes, just needs more cpu]

The majority of systems used to run Roon have 2 cores / 4 threads or less. NUCs are the typical archetype. We monitor these stats on an ongoing basis to drive these decisions. There is overhead associated to splitting/joining work across cores. It is most efficient to run things on 1 core if they fit there. We enabled the split to 2 cores as a technique for making extreme DSD upsampling cases workable. Unnecessary multi-core processing has other have negative consequences for the overall user…