Furio
Member
I am curious to know your opinions.
I am using a tiny, cheap celeron PC, with Windows 10, bought on Amazon Italy.
It is totally fanless...
KODLIX AP42 Intel Apollo Lake Pentium N4200 (2M cache)
64GB SSD MINI PC , Ram 4GB
190 EUR for a running thing with a true Win10 license, enough RAM and memory to run Foobar and access Tidal.
Everything runs well connected on USB with my Oppo BD-105.
Not bad but not powerful.
I just downloaded and tried Audirvana+ for Wiidnows.
My NAS has been under surveillance, and at the end the software is too slow for serious use.
I can find my CDs, search is good, but access via Tracks, or Albums on circular graphics is impossible.
My collection on NAS is well organized as folders, but not with tags.
I am sure I need to test Roon, but I need a faster PC.
In the past I built a test machine with an AMD APU solution.
Well runnning (faster that this Kodlix), but too noisy.
Now on a friend's desk for music production.
Roon guys suggest use of NUCs models.
I tried to check Intel datasheets.
Nice things, compact and powerful.
But not fanless...
Some users report that you can tweak on BIOS for silent use, but I am not sure.
I read recent Amir's job, with a fanless model with normal components.
But it seems time consuming, and expensive.
With NUC most hardware things are already solved.
A good audio solution could be a NUC board with an Akasa fanless case for these boards.
http://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?...tpl&type=Fanless Chassis&type_sub=Fanless NUC
Any experience here?
I am using a tiny, cheap celeron PC, with Windows 10, bought on Amazon Italy.
It is totally fanless...
KODLIX AP42 Intel Apollo Lake Pentium N4200 (2M cache)
64GB SSD MINI PC , Ram 4GB
190 EUR for a running thing with a true Win10 license, enough RAM and memory to run Foobar and access Tidal.
Everything runs well connected on USB with my Oppo BD-105.
Not bad but not powerful.
I just downloaded and tried Audirvana+ for Wiidnows.
My NAS has been under surveillance, and at the end the software is too slow for serious use.
I can find my CDs, search is good, but access via Tracks, or Albums on circular graphics is impossible.
My collection on NAS is well organized as folders, but not with tags.
I am sure I need to test Roon, but I need a faster PC.
In the past I built a test machine with an AMD APU solution.
Well runnning (faster that this Kodlix), but too noisy.
Now on a friend's desk for music production.
Roon guys suggest use of NUCs models.
I tried to check Intel datasheets.
Nice things, compact and powerful.
But not fanless...
Some users report that you can tweak on BIOS for silent use, but I am not sure.
I read recent Amir's job, with a fanless model with normal components.
But it seems time consuming, and expensive.
With NUC most hardware things are already solved.
A good audio solution could be a NUC board with an Akasa fanless case for these boards.
http://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?...tpl&type=Fanless Chassis&type_sub=Fanless NUC
Any experience here?