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[comet]

I'm just using jriver just for music playing to a dac and ripping CD's to the Library so what would i need for this?

thanks

[Awesome Donkey]

Can't really go wrong with Windows 10 or Windows 11.

Hardware wise, almost anything should suffice, though I'd recommend at least a CPU from the last 5 years and maybe at least 16GB of RAM (to allow some 'future proofing' even though I don't like that term though you can probably get away with 8GB of RAM). However if you plan on doing any conversions, e.g. PCM to DSD or DSD to PCM conversions, you'd probably need more powerful hardware.

[comet]

i have windows 10 i was thinking using a Intel Core i3-10100or do i need a i5 i just mainly use it for music

[rec head]

Like the Awesome Donkey said I think you only need extra CPU power if you are doing the DSD conversions. I have never used DSD and my PC running Windows 10 and MC 29 is about 10 years old. Music works great and even 4K video works with a 1060 video card.

To answer your question pretty much any CPU will work for audio only.

[Manfred]

In my media renderer I have: 2C/4T i3-6100 3MB 3.7 GHz, 51W, 8 GB DDR2133 RAM

It has a CPU Passmark of 5483, Single Threat is:2106 and JRmark is 4104.
The CPU plays all my music files with an always average load of 3-10%. I don't do real time conversion of pcm to DSD. DSD to pcm works fine with that CPU, I always convert my DSD to pcm in real time on this computer to my rme HDSPe AIO 24bit/192kHz card for audio output through AES interface.

In my HO I have AMD 5700G 8C16T APU and ADI-2 DAC FS which plays also DSD native.
Compared to i3 the AMD APU has a CPU Passmark of 24086, Single Threat is:3314 and JRmark is 7130. iGPU of the AMD CPU is much better, but you need that only for video. In UW resolution it plays also 4K video files using JRVR as video renderer.

[DJLegba]

My music server is an old NUC with a 1.7 GHz i3-410U CPU and 4GB of RAM. I set it up in 2014, although I did update Windows 7 to Windows 10 a couple of years ago. Its JRMark score is 1631. I play PCM up to 384 kHz and DSD 64/128/256 to a USB DAC without any problems. Right now Media Center is doing real time conversion of a DSD 64 file for a DLNA device that doesn't do DSD and maxes out at 48 kHz via WiFi. The NUC's CPU utilization goes up to about 25% when Media Center is converting the DSD file to PCM. So I think the i3 setup you have in mind will be capable.