I did the Roon OS work for the fanless Nucleus w/ i7 – I understand the loads Roon creates, how it changes that CPU’s temperature, and how a fanless case can dissipate the heat.
When the temp gets “hot”, it gets so hot so quick you have about 1.5 seconds before shutdown. I’m talking about going from 50C/60C to 130C+ – this happens when your thermal coupling is broken.
Normally Roon OS runs cool – it doesn’t have a middle mode really. Either we use CPU or we do not. If we do, the thermal coupling better work, if we don’t, then we run cool enough for even basic coupling.
If you feel like you have a strange situation or want to monitor/control this yourself, that’s perfectly fine, but ROCK is not for you. I don’t think I can be more clear on this.