Nuc 10th gen or better stay on 8th gen

[Ruben_Rodriguez (Rubén Rodríguez)]

Hi everybody, my rock based on intel nuc 8i5 broke and now I have to decide between to buy a new nuc10i5 or nuc8i5, intel nuc 10th gen doesn’t seem to be a step forward…and the price is more or less the same…what do you think?

[Sheldon_Stokes]

There’s an 8i5 in the for sale section now. food for thought

[AudioDreamer (Mike)]

The 10th Gen devices will be supported by Intel after support for the 8th Gen is dropped. If the prices are comparable, I’d go for the 10th Gen.

[wklie (Peter Lie)]

Is ROCK supported on Intel 10th Gen NUC? [yes]

I didn’t seriously think NUC10 would be worse than NUC8, but I did more reading for i5 and i7 class offerings, and checked a bunch of benchmarks. GPU of NUC10 is definitely worse, so Windows users should forget it. ROCK does not depend on the GPU though. In terms of CPU, while single-thread performance is (I think) the most important for Roon DSP, it’s not entirely consistent across different benchmarks, but if I have to pick a winner it’d also be NUC8. For the purpose of Roon, my preliminar…

[SylvainP (Sylvain)]

My vote for NUC 8. Only the NUC10i7 has a bit more CPU power and 6 cores.

But NUC10 GPU is not as good as NUC 8.

NUC 8 are also cheaper!

[wklie (Peter Lie)]

@SylvainP

NUC10i7 has a bit more CPU power

For single thread performance that is important to Roon DSP, probably not.

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

Aren’t the Gen 11’s due to come out this fall?

[Eric_Ho]

Multicore performance is very important, as the library scan would use all the cpu cores to do rendering.

[Ruben_Rodriguez (Rubén Rodríguez)]

Thank you for your answers guys.

Anybody from the Roon Team want to add their opinion about it?

[wklie (Peter Lie)]

@Rugby

Aren’t the Gen 11’s due to come out this fall?

I hope they fixed the faulty 2.5Gbps Ethernet controller by that time.

[Gareth_Irwin]

out of interest I could never install rock on my motherboard because it did not support legacy boot, does gen 10 support legacy boot?

[AudioDreamer (Mike)]

Yes it does, although you have to disable fast boot and modern power management before you can enable legacy boot.

[MrDenis (Denis)]

Roon have a relationship with Intel and are currently recommending 10th gen NUC

[Nepherte (Bart Verhoeven)]

No they’re not recommending 10th gen (at least not that I’m aware of). All info I’ve read seems to indicate you better stick with 8th gen.

[wklie (Peter Lie)]

@MrDenis

Roon have a relationship with Intel and are currently recommending 10th gen NUC

Where do you find this recommendation from Roon Labs?

[MrDenis (Denis)]

10th Gen NUC recommended for ROCK

[Koffi]

U cant undervolt 10th gen.

[Hans_N]

On this site: https://kb.roonlabs.com/Roon_Optimized_Core_Kit Roon recommend:

• buying a NUC10i7FNH (for large libraries or heavy DSP use)

BUT at the end it says:

• “If this is still not enough information, you should wait to see what works for other Roon members, or go with the NUC8i7BEH, as that is the best NUC that we’ve used.”

Which one will be the most quiet (and with less power consumption)?

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

I"m waiting for 11th gen which will be out this Fall. Even if you don’t want it, the prices on the 10th gen might drop some.

[Benjamin_Forgeot]

Hello

I have both at home a I7 10th with windows 10 and I5 8th running rock roon.
Roon is running perfectly on I5 8th gen.
If you can’t wait go for 8th gen you ll have no problem.
Not sure about any Roon improvement if you use a 10th gen Nuc.

Regards