Tidal tracks & albums load slowly on new NUC running Ubuntu

[Martin_Webster]

There is another thread describing similar problems. You may want to look at this.

NUC10i3FNK2 Roon Core Kit slow

The Frost Canyon devices major on energy conservation and low base clock speeds mean that their starting point is low before system demands ramp up clock speeds and available power. This may be what is slowing the system down. I haven’t played with one of these yet but one possible option is to go into bios and set the device into a higher performance mode if that is possible. These higher TDP models (compared to anything up to 7th gen) use lots of performance management to keep things cool and …