PC to run HQP advice please

[Music-Friend]

As the i7 7700 was mentioned:
I would recommend a Ryzen CPU instead: Offers twice the amount of cores and costs “only” 50 bucks more.

edit: check his comment on this

HQ Player and Ryzen

GPU is not related to multicore DSP as such. Sounds like the multicore DSP feature wasn’t enabled. That auto-configuration option (grayed box) is fairly recent. Maybe it didn’t exist at that time and multicore DSP should have been checked instead. I just tested latest HQPlayer on 1700X and closed-form works fine to DSD256, and with closed-form-fast to DSD512. With help of GeForce GTX1060 it can do closed-form to DSD512 without trouble.