New NUC, HD5000, 4x USB 3.0, infrared sensor

Thorburn · 14 May 2015 at 09:43

warren_1979 said:
Hi.

Can these Haswell NUC's take 1866mhz RAM or will it just downclock to 1600mhz?

Max officially supported speed is 1600MHz, so I'd imagine they'll downclock to that. There is little real benefit to 1866MHz on this kind of chip anyway (memory bandwidth isn't the IGPs bottleneck).

The Broadwell HD 6000 and Iris 6100 chips have official DDR3-1866 support though, and there are NUCs available with these now.

Pug · 18 May 2015 at 23:34

Had the i3 NUC sitting as a plex server (and client) for months now, and it's perfect. wouldn't know it was there, works with my harmony remote perfectly, and transcodes two or three streams with ease...

ChrisD. · 26 May 2015 at 13:56

My i3 NUC is running Openelec like a dream. No issues playing BD rips with PCM audio.

Gazb · 29 May 2015 at 23:02

S2KIP said:
My i3 NUC is running Openelec like a dream. No issues playing BD rips with PCM audio.

I'm guessing the i3 is a much safer bet for these kind of applications than the atom based NUC that's about £100.

Dsteviedee · 30 May 2015 at 15:47

I have a Celeron based NUC and runs Openelec smooth as butter.
Over Wifi too.

=XDC=FluphyBunny · 2 Jun 2015 at 07:56

Pug said:
Had the i3 NUC sitting as a plex server (and client) for months now, and it's perfect. wouldn't know it was there, works with my harmony remote perfectly, and transcodes two or three streams with ease...

I take it those multiple streams aren't 1080/transcodes? Was looking at one of these and they seemed underpowered (and expensive) for Plex. I thought it needed roughly 2000 passmark score per transcoded stream?