I purchased mc 17. I am using an atom processor with 2 gb ram(max for the pc), solid state drive and a USB DAC. I have 120k songs all on nas drives . I use pc for audio only - no web use,e use, etc. pc has no monitor and is controlled with a VNC client and server. Win 7 pro.
I use wasapi, exclusive mode.
Don't care about movies or photos.
Pc is a CAPS 1 server on computer audiophile website - in case some are familiar.
The pc is often sluggish when searching, surfing to another drive, etc. I often get a Windows MSG box stating do You want to wait or shut down mc? It does recover in 5-20 seconds.
I improved things by deactivating many windows services, turned off indexing, etc. mc response is better but still laggardly at times.
so:
Is this machine underpowered?
Would mc 16 or 15 mc likely work better?
If so, do have same audio "insides" and hence sound same?
Similar features (I don't care re movies or photos) for audio in early versions?.
Do I have to buy again if I "downgrade"?
Thanks