which wifi chips is supported by ROCK? as we are not able to add specific drivers to ROCK, better choose the right hardware.
Whatās the betting on ROCK running on a Ryzen NUCalike like this ? My guess is that the Linux part would run, but drivers would be all over the shop.
Hmm, i think itās time to shed my distrust for AMD, they seem to to really have begun to āget their crap togetherā as stated in the clip.
Iām still in the āAMD pulls power like water heater and run as stable as a Yugo from -74ā-camp, but try and have an open mind.
I had an Athlon64 which I liked, but have been Intel for 2 or 3 computers since. I just ordered a new PC with a Ryzen R7 3700X. Itās got a 65 watt TPD so Iāll have to look elsewhere for my water heating needs.
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I think the most anyone can say is that the chips that are used in the supported NUCs are probably supported, although that may not be the case for the NUC 8 and 10 models.
See:
- We recommend using the onboard ethernet, but support for some USB ethernet and WiFi adapters is included. Some of the above NUC7s have built-in WiFi, which we may support, but once again, we recommend using ethernet and not assuming WiFi works here, or is an acceptable solution for Roon Core connectivity.
(ROCK KB Article); and
I was an Athlon64 fan and I admit a tendancy to support the underdog. That said, their processors were so bad for so long that I caved and bought Intel. Pragmatism means that my last upgrade was a Ryzen 7 but only as they now hold the bang for buck higher ground again.
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Hello, am new to Roon and really enjoying the interface.
However, being a tinkerer (and always looking to save cash 
) Iāve installed ROCK onto an old Lenovo M600 Tiny (https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd100929/) running an Intel Celeron N3010 Processor with 4GB RAM.
Works perfectly with my Sonos set up (Sonos Connect V2) and other mobile devices, but intermittently fails to start my Chromecast Audio devices when selecting a new track. The play button moves to āpauseā but I have to stop and start it again to get the track to play from Tidal (I donāt maintain a local library). Works much better when advancing automatically down a play queue.
Any thoughts or advice gratefully received. Thank you for reading this and I hope this is the right place to post this. If not, please let me know where I should. I know that the Lenovo is prob under specād for ROCK.
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How is the core connected to your network?
Ethernet cable over powerline network
The only thing I can suggest is you try a direct connection to your router/switch and see if the situation improves. I use Powerline adaptors with no problems but others have had issues.
Yup. It was working fine when I had the box on Linux Ubuntu, but I was having trouble getting Remote Desktop to work, so tried ROCK. Actually, thinking about it, you could well be right. On Linux it was running on Wifi. Might well be the Powerlineā¦
I instelled ROCK in ZENMEI i5-7260 mini PC yesterday .
It play very well.
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I try to upsample to DSD512 used my ZENMEI i5-7260u fanless mini PC ,it installed MOCK.
It still plays very well.
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Today ,I got a new ZenMei i7-8550U fanless miniPC from Chinese 1111shopping festival.
I installed ROCK Immediately. and upsample to run DSD512.
It performs very well.
By the way ,i7-8550Uās tempreture lower then i5-7260Uās.when two fanless miniPCs upsample to run DSD512.
Hi Guys, new to Roon.
I want to dedicate my i5 2nd Gen laptop (Z560 model) to MOCK. Now I did install the ROCK on it but couldnāt boot it beyond the initial large Lenovo window. No F2/F12 commands seemed to work either. The laptop just didnāt start after installing ROCK. How can I go around this problem as the pc of HW is just lying around doing nothingā¦
The other option is for me to buy an i5 4570 4th Gen PC thatās within my budget and to dedicate it to ROCK. Now, will that work and be powerful enough to upsample Tidal HiFi to DSD512? And has anyone used those here?.. thanks
You are on your own here my friend - nobody can say for sure what will work or not other than Roonās identified NUC systems. Unless they have an identical system, and even then a BIOS version might still break something.
My 7th generation (Kaby Lake) i5 NUC is not powerful enough to upsample TIDAL to DSD512, so I doubt you will have better luck with a 4th generation model.
There are some major differences between the processors in NUCs and desktop PCās. I donāt think thereās a way of saying this will/wonāt work as it depends on lots of other factors also, such as source rez and disk and memeory i/o etc.
But i agree that it most likely will be a struggleā¦
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That is two relatively processor intensive actions. The MQA unfold then the upsample. Iāve got a gen 5 i5 NUC that quite happily does a straight 512 upsample but Iāve never tried it after an MQA unfold.
Yup. I was testing a worst case, but my little i5-7260U equipped NUC is not up to the task even with straight Redbook CD upsampling to DSD512.