Please Explain Roon RAAT

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If you plan to put your own music on a drive directly attached to Roon Core the importance of i5 vs i7 would be whether you plan to use Roon's DSP or not. For heavy DSP use an i7 is better and more future proof. Even an i5 (which is what I use currently) is OK today, but it may struggle if I use a lot of DSP (like DSD upsampling and convolution with long filters)