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

Genoma · 16 Feb 2014 at 11:09

Omar said:
It doesn't need a different PSU, but my Intel supplied one (65W) buzzes a little bit, and apparently the one you can buy with the Abel is slightly lower wattage (36W), but still more than enough for the NUC's requirements under load so I thought I'd give it a shot to see if it might be slightly quieter.

Ahh gotcha!

Genoma · 28 Feb 2014 at 17:58

Genuine question - that looked like a lot of artic silver, I'm pretty sure the guidance for my i7 920 was just a small pea size blob spread out. Won't that amount spread out and over onto the board? (Is it conductive?)

Genoma · 1 Mar 2014 at 22:30

Mine spent a over 24hrs transcoding my full size bluray rips with Handbrake, was a good soak test. Temps never exceeded 75C and it didn't miss a beat.

Genoma · 12 Mar 2014 at 18:41

There is a BIOS v24 out and a bunch of driver updates (64 bit v for Win8 here)

Genoma · 4 Apr 2014 at 11:29

BIOS 0025 is out today.

My NUC is requiring a 5 sec delay on SATA else it fails to find a bootable device, not sure if it has anything to do with the 4 USB devices attached... need to test more.

Genoma · 31 Jul 2014 at 21:42

It's a piece of cake

Genoma · 16 Jan 2015 at 15:28

Can anyone recommend a fanless case for my D54250WYK NUC? I need one with 4 USB ports.

Genoma · 16 Jan 2015 at 17:54

Thinking about an Akasa Newton H or Akasa Tesla H

Genoma · 20 Jan 2015 at 21:24

Went for the Akasa newton X here from OCUK (last one in stock I think) looks like a nice case, fanless + will take and extra HDD

Genoma · 22 Jan 2015 at 20:19

Received the Akasa newton X today, superb little case. Just spent last 40 mins moving everything in. As well as the mSATA SSD, I dropped a 2TB internal drive (the new Samsung 2TB are 9.5mm and fit perfectly inside).

Quick test with handbrake transcoding load and it was running at 55C - seriously impressive for a fanless system.

Genoma · 24 Jan 2015 at 10:27

The current NUC i3s and i5s are more than capable of doing 1080p. It's not that taxing for a modern CPU/GPU. I store blu-ray disks with makemkv and stream them from a USB 3 drive with XBMC absolutely fine.

Although my cinema sounds doesn't support True-HD or DTS-HD so I can't speak for it but the reports are that this is also absolutely fine on the i3 and i5 NUCs. The celeron NUC is capable too but for some reason the windows drivers have some sort of licensing agreement missing and don't support them. People work around it with Openlec.

Brix are nice, people don't tend to like their noise though. The NUC was barely audible, but I went with a fanless case to eliminate it completely + avoid dust build / reduce maintenance as I'm considering moving my USB drives to it + run it 24/7

Genoma · 24 Jan 2015 at 19:03

Ah good to know, I've not looked at them for some time.

Genoma · 26 Jan 2015 at 23:05

Don't you need a GPU for flight deck simulations?

Genoma · 27 Jan 2015 at 16:27

Ah thought that might be the case. Not to take this thread too off-topic but that seems like it would be a good candidate to run on a VM. An old i7 (or Xeons) some RAM running 3 VMs could be a nice way to run your stuff.

*edit* unless there is a dependency on multiple hardware devices that can't be virtualised...

Genoma · 14 May 2015 at 08:21

no idea, but they are very picky about the RAM voltage, mine were 1.35V