Quote Originally Posted by blackraven View Post
Frenchmon, I know that you are skeptical but my friend is very reliable and I am going to go over to his house for a listen. He also works with computers for a living. I think that 30 days use of doing double DSD with out a hiccup is a fairly good test of the system. Bear in mind that the computer is not being asked to do any other tasks. It does play back 1080p video with out any problems as well. It has on board Intel HD 5000 graphics and an SSD.

For $100 bucks it is worth a try. I did not have any trouble playing hirez music on my old $2K (courtesy of work) custom latop that died recently. It had a P9500 processor dual core with 4gigs of fast ram that ran at 2.4Ghz and if was painfully slow compared to a computer with a first gen I3 that ran at 2.4Ghz.
I think you're right that not asking the CPU to do a lot of other things -- such as running an antivirus program -- is the key. Decoding a few thousand bps is a inherently a trivial task for a gigahertz computer.