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A winner: Roon on Asus NUC 15 Pro/Core 7 Slim/16Gb RAM/512Gb SSD

I finally had time to replace the old PC I run Roon on with latest Asus Nook 15 Pro mini-pc, cost <1K. This is most recent Windows 11 model configured with a lot more horsepower than my old similar form factor Windows 10 model, so was ready for an upgrade, especially in that Roon had been fussing about running on it quite a bit of late.

So far so good.   Very compact, excellent performance, very quiet running.  Roon is zipping along quite optimally now.

I’ll post if anything changes but looks like a winner for running Roon.  All problems gone, at least so far.

Moving my programs from old Windows 10 to new Windows 11 was a breeze, including Roon.    All my Roon files are on a remote USB drive which I just connected to new PC, then shut down old PC,  installed Roon on new, logged in, and restored my library from backup. 

Nice!     

mapman
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Use Windows Task Manager->Performance Monitor for Roon performance visibility.

My old PC ran close to or at full CPU utilization with Roon running.  That is a red flag indicating not enough CPU power to run Roon efficiently.

On new PC, CPU utilization with Roon running is less than 10%, indicating plenty of headroom if needed.   

Memory utilization has not been an issue.

I run strictly wifi so that can be a bottleneck as well.   So far on new PC,  wifi  (2G being used) usage might still cross the red line on occasion, but no noticeable impact so far.  Roon does recommend using a wired network connection for Roon core which is certainly better, but I have had good luck to date with wifi, ie no problems streaming even 192khz hi res via Qubuz.  Wifi is certainly more convenient and seems capable of doing the job well. 

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Note: All Roon related files are on a USB drive connected directly to the NUC, not remote, which I mistakenly indicated earlier.

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Room streaming simultaneously to 3 endpoints all being upsampled to 24/196.  SGC ST i5

 

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@mapman That’s great to hear!  I was trying to get an ASUS 14 similarly spec’d as your 15 but could not get an IP from my network. Roon team stated they do not support 14 and higher.  So I backed down to an Intel 12 which is actually supported by ASUS as well. Arrives tomorrow. Did you have any issues getting your 15 up and running?

Woots

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