Nucleus One vs NUC 7i5 - Thoughts?

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@Arindal

The question is which DSP load you are imagining from roon that would be putting multiple cores of an N100 under stress for hours. If you play 3 or 4 simultaneous streams of PCM768>DSD512 with convolution and heavy DSP, maybe this would bring an N100 to thermal limits on the long run.

I am surprised you haven’t seen the “drop-outs when upsampling to DSD512” posts. Some Roon users always try crazy thing (a stochastic necessity when the user base is large enough, I suppose). People bring faster processes to their knees.

@Arindal

When I upgraded RAM in my previous machine I did not feel any improvement in snappiness if only roon´s RAM consumption stayed within the limits of what I had installed.

As one would expect:

Nucleus Memory Upgrade

A symptom of needing RAM is a crash, nothing else. Roon OS does not have a swap file or do anything else memory based on the SSD. It’s all in RAM. If you added RAM, you shouldn’t feel any changes other than “its not crashing anymore”. If you weren’t crashing before, adding RAM will not cause your system to speed up (Nucleus doesn’t swap), and should have zero other impact other than growth potential. Roon doesn’t use more RAM just because it has access to it.

Roon Nucleus RAM Upgrade?

We do not throttle RAM usage. If you got a performance increase from replacing the RAM, it’s because the RAM got faster, or you are experiencing a placebo effect. If you have too little RAM, Roon does not use slower storage to keep working, it just runs out and crashes. Some systems (windows, macos, many linux distributions, etc…), depending on the install, will swap out the contents of less commonly used physical RAM to SSD/HDD. On those systems, you would feel a massive performance drop if …