It is also a gaming machine, and it might look like your son’s, but it is the latest of the best available, and due to supply shortages, hard to get, and still cheaper than a Rossini
Love it. I built a fanless PC to go into a specialised case to go inside my (essentially) fanless rack - spoit by a fanned NUC and NAS. The problem is I keep a very close eye on the temperature of both the CPU and Graphics card temperatures, so am never relaxed. Water cooling yes - thats my next PC project but I must rehouse that NUC first.
Thanks, but this way is too much hassle. I use a Fanless W11 PC with JCAT USB and network card, and Fidelizer starts automatically when I turn it on. The PC is used exclusively for ROON. As a core / player on a Vivaldi DAC and as a core for my work PC / aurender amp. When I had installed Fidelizer, I immediately heard that it sounded better. On both sets! You really have to try it once, in the “Purist” setting.
I have read through this topic at the Roon Community, which is familiar to you. It is very informative, but for me also made clear that Fidelizer is not for me/ for my new PC/ for my use case:
Edit: to add: after getting familiar with my new rig, I see that when Roon is active, it is does not influence the CPU and RAM activity: it stays at 0%. Overall, with just a browser and email client open, and Roon, CPU activity is at 2% average (1.3 - 2.6).
May I ask, how do you feed your Rossini - USB or Ethernet?
I feed my Bartok via Ethernet using a Roon Core on a quite strong NUC with ROCK.
The music is located on a Melco. Playing music with Roon from the Melco sounds better than playing music form the Melco with UPNP using Minim Server.