Article: The Definitive Guide To Roon Optimized Core Kit (ROCK)

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9 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

 

Very good point. The ROCK has a fan. Right now it's really noisy because it's analyzing 300,000+ tracks for my newest installation. when it's running regular, it's pretty quiet. i can't say for sure if nobody will hear it in a listening room, but I'd be comfortable with it sitting in my room. 

Akasa sells a fanless Newton S7 case for the Intel Kaby Lake NUC family (NUC7i5BNH/K & NUC7i3BNH/K).  Unfortunately this case does not support the i7 version (NUC7i7BNH) with a much higher 28W CPU TDP rating.

 

I have had a Skull Canyon NUC (NUC6i7KYK) for almost a year, and just bought an Akasa Galactico fanless case for it (from performance-pcs.com) which is huge!  This NUC features a 45W 4-core/8-thread Core i7-6770HQ CPU and should be more than capable of running ROCK.

 

NUC and fanless/silent are not mutually exclusive, if one is willing to buy a fanless case and do the installation work...