Upsampling to DSD512 with Nucleus+ is this processing speed normal?

[noris]

Hi @Katun,

@Nepherte hit the nail on the head with the messaging. The Nucleus is designed as an appliance, meaning that it is supposed to stay cool and silent and more importantly, work under different environmental conditions.

The processing speed numbers might be a bit different than your ROCK setup and that’s ok, because the Nucleus was designed for functionality, not to hit specific processing speed numbers.

As was discussed on another thread, the Nucleus has no fan, so some more aggressive power management is to be expected when compared to ROCK:

Roon Nucleus Advantages

This is fully justified given the fact that the activated Turbo boost mode in the BIOS with a certain processor load leads to a sharp increase in the CPU frequency and, accordingly, a sharp increase in heat generation on the CPU crystal which requires a copper substrate with high thermal conductivity to remove the heat from a relatively small area of the CPU crystal. Such a copper substrate for contact with the CPU crystal is unfortunately absent both in the Nucleus and in the alternative fanle…

If DSD512 is working except for when you are placing a heavy load on the IO HDD operations, then I would say that there is no issue here.