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[AlcoPop]

Hello Everyone,

I’m in the process of building a silent Windows audio server and JRiver is recommended by my DACs manufacturer.

I intend to just use it for serving music to my DAC via USB. I don’t intend to use any kind of up sampling or DSP functionality in JRiver, though I would use the feature that inserts a small amount of silence at the beginning of the first track of an album as my DAC makes a small click when audio formats/bitrates change.
Highest bit rate format would be DSD512.

I’d also be operating JRiver by remote.
Would a 35w TDP Intel Core i5 10600T be capable of doing the above or do I need something more powerful? It has a passmark score of 12177.

Additional PC specs are:

Streacom FC10 Alpha case
Asuz Z490M-Plus Micro-ATX Motherboard.
32GB DDR4 2666 Ram.
512GB M.2 System Drive
4TB Samsung EVO SSD.

Windows server 2019.

At a later date, I’ll add a JCat or Pink Faun USB card.

Thank you in advance to anyone taking the time to post.

AlcoPop.

[Awesome Donkey]

That CPU and hardware should be more than fine (though, if you can find a AMD Ryzen 5000 series CPU and motherboard, it might be cheaper with better performance and less power draw), but I should point out that JRiver doesn't support running Media Center on Windows Server.

[AlcoPop]

Hello Awesome Donkey,

Thanks for the reply, good to know I won't be getting something can't cope.

And mods, sorry for posting in the wrong section.

Kind regards,

AlcoPop

[zybex]

You should use Windows 10, there's no need for Windows Server. You may have problems finding some drivers for Windows Server.