Which Roon Ready NUC should I Buy and Where From

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

As Geoff wrote, GregD who is in UK posted in Sales and Trades and might still build them,

FS: Intel NUC 8i5 in Akasa Plato Fanless Case - ideal for ROCK

[image] I have for sale an 8th generation Intel NUC with an i5 processor. It’s in a fanless Turing case from Akasa. The 8i5 has about the same performance as the 7i7 in the nucleus plus, and is a good balance of price and performance for running ROCK. This model has 8G of memory on two DIMM cards (for best performance) and a new 250G Samsung 970 pro NVMe SSD. This is an ideal configuration for most roon users (if your library is in the 100k+ region - take a look at the other NUCs I have for …

FS: Fanless 8i5 & 8i7 NUCs in Akasa cases ideal for ROCK - to order

Having built and sold a few fanless NUCs suitable for ROCK here (as well as building a couple to order) - I’m now in the process of building two more and I wanted give any potential UK buyers give a heads up in case anyone is looking for a particular spec. There are options over cases (the normal Akasa Turing - or the low profile Akasa Plato), CPU (I have an 8i7 and an 8i5), memory (8, 16 or 32G - in 2 cards for optimum performances) and internal media storage (an additional SSD of up to 8Tb). …