09-Mar-2017, 07:47
(01-Mar-2017, 22:35)Antoine Wrote: Out of the options I wrote up earlier I made the decision to build a new music/Roon server myself and just ordered the following stuff. Made some changes to the original list of stuff, mainly to save costs. The Streacom is cheaper and I found the Skylake i7 6700T CPU used for less than the Kaby Lake i5 7600T CPU I mentioned earlier. Differences between Kaby Lake and Skylake are minor and not really worth it, especially in this case where it'll run in a headless server.
Case: Streacom FC8 Alpha Optical Fanless Chassis - Silver (http://www.streacom.com/products/fc8-alp...s-chassis/)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110TN-E (http://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-H...-rev-10#ov)
RAM: Crucial DDR4 2133Mhz CL15 - 8GB (kit 2 x 4GB)
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700T (2.8GHz-3.6GHz, quad core, hyper threading, 35W, 8MB L3 cache)
Arctic Silver AS5 - 12grams (thermal compound)
This costs me ~573 euro's, a lot less than any commercial seller would charge.
Will add the 1TB Samsung 850 EVO SSD and entry level server grade PCI-E Intel I210 ethernet adapter I already own to make the system complete.
To be continued!
Hi Antoine,
I hope you are doing good
I have two short questions for you:
- I was considering following into your steps of building a new server and was contemplating the configuration you published a few days ago. I tried to sum-up the prices I found for the components on the internet and could not really recoup with the total price you announced here. Could you kindly share with us the providers you are using to source your components ?
- I am following-up the developments of Romaz on the US forum. He is using a Chord-Dave DAC which he is feeding through USB, which might explain why he is so eager to provide a correctly time-framed flow to the DAC. Do you have any clue whether this kind of optimization would apply to a system like yours which is feeding the flow in asynchronous mode to a Mutec ?