28-Jul-2015, 11:17
(26-Jul-2015, 13:26)octaviars Wrote: Ok thanks for the input, will think about my future plans. And after some reading, this is a djungle and I think I am not going to build it myself if I am going to do this.
If you (Antoine) were to build it today what would you use for components if we use the CAPS v4 as a starter point?
My plan is to run ROON on it and have a bluray player in it.
Sorry, missed your question.
My ultimate setup today would probably be a dual CAPS v4 setup in series. The one that connects to the Devialet (music PC) would have the extra/changed parts (hard- and software) I already mentioned and all the default CAPSv4 parts minus the harddisk and a lower TDP Xeon. Perhaps I would also 'upgrade' it's LPSU to a full ATX LPSU.
The 'control PC' is the one that connects to the 'music PC' would also be mostly a CAPSv4 PC but would probably have a Core i5 or i7 CPU (for the integrated graphics) and a matching Z97 chipset mainboard to run Roon Core.
I would use optical fiber ethernet between control and music PC either using fiber-copper ethernet converters or NIC's that have a SFP connector (EBay
) and optical to connect the IPMI interface to the network.
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