Bit confused about Roon

[wklie]

I will buy a fanless NUC and a techie friend will install the OS and the necessary software. I'll just stick to Roon and see how that goes.

Get the NUC8i7BEH (or i5) with the m.2 Samsung 970 (or 980) as boot drive with 16GB RAM (in case you change to Windows later). Normally for ROCK installation, you just need the smallest capacity version of m.2 SSD. But in case you change to Windows in the future, a larger one won't hurt.

NUC10 has worse GPU for Windows. NUC11 is not approved for ROCK. NUC7 and NUC6 are weaker. NUC5 cannot boot from m.2 in ROCK.

In case you want to use a LPS for the NUC, you need one with 19V at no less than 4A. Or ask Mike.

 

[paleo12]

Hi, once more, thanks. I have been talking with Quiet PC, as I bought my PC from them. I will get a version of this one: UltraNUC Pro 7 Fanless keeping your advice in mind. They said they knew what is required for Roon Cores as they sell a lot of them. The guy also said that if it did not work for some reason, I could return the device. Seems OK to me.

 

[wklie]

In that product page, you should only choose the the i7 because the rest is not quad core. That's a NUC7i7DNHE, which I believe is equivalent to Nucleus Plus revision B. Although I prefer NUC8 as stated due to higher performance, NUC7 is certainly fine.