Lifetime Roon is a go - alternative to Roon Nucleus

@emergingsoul

It is nice to see that you are starting to think for yourself...

Look at Intel, Asus and others for a basic NUC style box...  Most major computer manufactures make these NUC style PC system...  It is pretty easy to compare the features and price/performance...  CPU, Memory, Disk and/or SSD and I/O via Ethernet, USB, power supplies and fanless cases verses the Roon Nucleus...

missing a fan less case? What does this mean?

the nuc linked on amazon from roon is fanless? This nuc is noisefree?

i am 13 years old and pride myself on thinking for myself.  My parents spoil me by letting me buy overpriced audio products.  Streaming is a technical jungle filled with peril.  

My NUC doesn't have a fan. As I've mentioned if you want a Nucleus clone, one that runs ROCK you need to make sure it matches the list.

Core Server. The models we support are:

• NUC5i3xxx
• NUC5i5xxx
• NUC6i3SYx
• NUC6i5SYx
• NUC7i3BNx
• NUC7i5BNx
• NUC7i7BNx
• NUC7i3DNx
• NUC7i5DNx
• NUC7i7DNx
• NUC8i3BEx
• NUC8i5BEx
• NUC8i7BEx
• NUC10i3FNx
• NUC10i5FNx
• NUC10i7FNx

Why is a ROON Nucleus better than a generic ROON headless server? ROON themselves have stated that you do not need a perfect machine for the headless server.

In the last 3 weeks I installed the ROON server on a 24 Core + 96GB RAM server. Another server with 12 Cores + 24GB RAM. Plus another with 4 Cores and 16GB RAM. I used a Sonore microRendu as the convertor to the DAC. In all 3 cases the ROON server seemed to work with the same level of quality. I had the same excellent sound in all 3 cases.

The big server was in my garage and the bits had to travel on a Powerline copper network to my microRendu. Still sounded the same as the other 2 machines which were closer to the DAC.