Black Friday / Cyber Monday NUC Deals
I’ll try to collect some Black Friday deals that might be interesting for people considering to get a NUC or already having one. OUT OF STOCK: Amazon.com has NUC5PPYH (the N3700-based Pentium model, review)...
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Intel Publishes the Specifications of the Skylake NUCs
Intel has published the final specifications for the Skylake i3 and i5 NUCs. The final list of specifications look very much like the list we predicted a bit earlier. Here are the final specifications:...
Intel Core i7 NUC review (NUC5i7RYH) – Benchmarks and Conclusion (2/2)
In the second part of our review, we’re installing Windows on the NUC and running a few benchmarks to compare the performance with the NUC5i5RYK/NUC5i5RYH models. If you came via a search engine and...
Intel Core i7 NUC review (NUC5i7RYH) – Hardware Overview (1/2)
The Intel NUC lineup has traditionally contained models from low end Celeron-based units to the upper middle-class Core i5. However, before the current generation of NUCs there hasn’t been a model powered by a...
First Signs of Skylake NUCs Shipping in the Nearby Future
Some Dutch and Belgian online stores have listed the coming Skylake NUC models on their pages already. For example, see Redcorp or Solitee. The specifications are not listed properly yet, but the following is...
ASRock Beebox Braswell Fanless Mini PC Review (2/2)
Installing Windows 10 on the Beebox was simple. The bootup time is relatively short, thanks to the speedy mSATA SSD drive I had in the system. The performance in Windows is obviously not stellar....
ASRock Beebox Braswell N3000 Fanless Mini PC Review (1/2)
Earlier this year ASRock came out with their first ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) PC, the Beebox. Intel pioneered the UCFF PC scene with their Intel NUC product line, but lately we’ve seen some competition...
Braswell Pentium NUC Now Available as Ready-built PC (NUC5GPYH)
Intel has released their first ready-built NUC (product brief), which sports a Braswell N3700 CPU. The system comes completely ready and requires no assembly. The single memory-slot is prepopulated with a 2 GB memory...
Dual-channel vs. Single-channel, does it matter?
Dual-channel memory mode means that the memory controller on the mainboard is able to access the memory using two channels instead of one. This in theory doubles the available memory bandwidth, but in practice...
HEVC Decoding in Linux for Braswell
When I reviewed the Braswell-based NUC5CPYH earlier I wrote that hardware accelerated HEVC (sometimes also known as H.265) video decoding support did not fully exist in Linux. However, the situation has changed very recently....