MOCK - Tell us what strange gear you've installed ROCK on!

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Using ROCK on some machines can be a challenge, hence this thread.
Machines running Roon aren’t really MOCKs.

I had the almost the same machine. It drank electricity, mostly because of the fans.

Showing (off) your Roon setup - description and photos [2015-04 .. 2021-03]

Just put Roon under WIN10 running on a dual Xeon motherboard (E5620 cpus running 2.4 G (8 cores)) with 16 G of memory. Bought used, in a 1U server case, on EBay for $160, shipped. One drawback is, with 8 fans running full blast, it sounds like a WWII bomber on takeoff. I put it in the cellar.

Problem is Xeons aren’t the best processors for Roon.

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

Roon uses 1 core per zone normally, or 2 if you enable “parallelize sigma delta modulator” setting and are doing DSD output. If you haven’t turned this on yet, try that first: [20 PM] In general, the “many slow cores” model like your XEON is not the best for Roon. Almost none of our users have this class of hardware, so putting in a ton of effort/complexity optimizing for horizontal scalability doesn’t make a lot of sense. This isn’t just about audio, either–for UI responsiveness it’s also adv…