Because I’m now looking at multichannel audio I’m looking at a nucleus or a NUC.
From what I can gatherer the following is about equivalent to a titan?
According to a teardown someone on the internet did:
This has the same single-thread performance as the one in your screenshot, but yours has more cores and higher power usage. If you don’t intend to run DSD512 with DSP to 12 simultaneous zones, the i7 has marginal additional value.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5300vs5198/Intel-i3-1315U-vs-Intel-i7-1360P
So I should go for this and save myself £115?
But if I wanted something equivalent to the titan the previous option would do?
You could, and it would be equivalent, but it also depends on how easily you spend money and what you intend to do with the NUC. You could also go with the i7 from earlier, it’s just that for most Roon stuff, as it is today, it won’t make a difference. (Except multiroom with lots of zones and heavy DSP, and maybe a marginal difference when searching)
I would definitely put 2x8 GB RAM in, maybe 2x16. We have seen a case or two on the forum where a Titan crashed due to insufficient RAM with a very large library. I feel like most people who really need a Titan (or equivalent) because of their library size might easily exceed the 8 GB RAM the Titan comes with by default.
(Plus, two RAM sticks rather than one enables higher memory bandwidth, which might add a small performance increase)
Ordered with 2x16 GB RAM. Now I’ll just have to set it up and migrate my database when it arrives. 
Thanks for your help.
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