I’m running Roon ROCK on a 6th gen i3 NUC (NUC6i3SYH) with 8GB RAM, M.2 for OS and 2.5 SSD for library storage. I’ve been extremely happy with this super-low maintenance solution. But…
Just recently I’ve noticed some slowness creep in. Nothing terrible, just a little lag on occasion, which remains across reboots and may slowly be getting worse. The NUC is on ethernet, along with most of my clients, so I doubt it’s network related. The NUC has been running 24/7 for 7 or 8 years now. Problem free other than the aforementioned lag.
Now to the point: Has anyone been running ROCK on the new Asus NUCs? Based on the list of compatible hardware here, I was about to order NUC13ANHI3, then I noticed the one I was looking at is made by Asus. Same part number, but prepended with an “as”, so ASNUC13ANHI3.
I could go with Intel, but due in part to price and availability, the Asus would be preferred. Assuming it works.
Silly question, have you cleaned the NUC you have? I have an older NUC and I noticed the fan running more often so I cleaned it and I even went as far as redoing the CPU thermal paste and its seems to run “?better?” now.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the same spec, built in the same factory even, only with different branding. At this point in the transition, anyway.
I did some further DuckDuckGo-ing and found the Intel-Asus transition agreement actually states Asus to develop Intel designs for gen 10-13.
I’ll grab that 13th gen Asus I’ve been looking at and give it a try.
Not silly at all! I actually cleaned it out a few weeks ago. Took the case off and there was a fair bit of dust/crud built up in there. Gave it a good cleaning. May be running cooler, but sadly, no change in lag/loading times.
Ha! Oh, there definitely is a touch of upgrade-itis going on here
An i7 is quite a bit more processor than my (earlier gen) i3. Makes me think if I’m going to drop the $ on a shiny new box, I may go with i5/7 instead of i3. Maybe I can get 10+ years out of it this time!
I recently upgraded my old slow i3 NUC to a new Intel Mini ITX with an i7 11th generation and it is so fantastically fast with Roon. The company I bought it from build them themselves and they explained to me that the generation of the processor is as important than whether it is i3 or i9. For example they said a 10th gen i3 would be better than a lower generation i5. Here is the one I bought:
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