Intel BOXNUC6CAYH NUC Kit Components

I wanted to wait until after I had this product for a couple of days to get a feel for it, and that time has now elapsed. I will likely re-visit this review in the future, due to some minor expected issues due to it being a new product. For what this system is, it is incredible. This is a complete system (including windows 10 license), with everything you need to get started. And, it is upgradeable, which for most use cases I would highly recommend pursuing. I was quite surprised at how well the system ran with just the included 2GB of ram. When I had the system connected to a 1080P display, I did not have many complaints with the 2GB, however I could tell some things were a bit sluggish than they otherwise should be and memory usage hovered very close to maximum. Switching over to my 4K tv, though, and I REALLY will need more. (I have placed an order for two 4GB sticks to max this system out while getting the speed advantage of dual-channel. You could also go with a single stick of 8GB for a huge boost, you would just be missing out on the interleaving gains). Basically, when using 4K output, especially when attempting to play videos, I was seeing dropped frames any time I did anything as intensive as moving my mouse. When everything except the video was still, the system was fine, using very little processing power despite playing 4K video. And about that 4K video out. This is a bit of a caveat at present, but in another month or two I expect this to have been resolved. If you use Microsoft's Edge browser, you will have no worries. Hardware accelerated VP9 (youtube) and HEVC (everything else 4K) will work just fine. If you use Chrome, however, you will need to do a workaround to force the browser to use hardware acceleration. I am not going to get into the details of how to do this, but know that there has already been a code commit to unrestrict this, it is just a matter of waiting for it to filter into the released version of the browser. (This restriction on VP9 decoding in Chrome had been put in place from the Skylake generation of CPUs, which for a time supported a hybrid GPU/CPU decode for this codec. It turns out it was very buggy, and so Intel recently removed support for it from the driver, but not before Chrome took their own step of blacklisting accelerated VP9 decode on all Intel graphic chipsets.) It is worth noting that even before I took the steps to force-enable the VP9 decoding in chrome, the system was able to mostly handle up to 1080P 60FPS content with very few drops. 4K, however, definitely required the hardware acceleration for smooth playback. Other than the small amount of included RAM, the other obvious limitation on this system is in the included disk, which is actually effectively seen as an internal MMC card. This means serialized writes and relatively poor performance. I have not benchmarked it specifically, but the flashing activity light was very prolonged in its activity while I had it as my primary storage. I was fairly quick to install a SATA SSD in the system and clone the internal storage to it. Since then, disk activity has gone way down and responsiveness has increased. During my install of the SSD, I ran into an issue that surprised me from an Intel system. Specifically, I was unable to get the BIOS to detect an external USB CD drive as a boot device. Routinely when I use a new system, I will boot to a Linux live cd to clone the disk image for backup purposes. I tried two different optical drives, both of which I have recently used successfully in other systems, and in both cases this new NUC could not see them, despite selecting appropriate BIOS options to enable legacy booting. I ended up using a bootable thumb drive to accomplish my disk cloning task, so the USB booting in general clearly DOES work. I would expect this USB CD boot issue to be resolved with a future BIOS update. (The system as I received it included version 0027, but I upgraded it to the latest 0029. I experienced the CD issue with both releases.) I will revisit this review after I upgrade to dual channel 8GB ram, as I expect that will greatly improve things. My only other experience with NUCs is a skylake-generation i3 NUC (NUC6i3SYH). That NUC clearly has a more powerful processor than this one, as evidenced by it software decoding 1080P 60FPS vp9 with lower than 50% processor usage, whereas this one pegs out and drops a few frames attempting to do the same. (As I mentioned earlier in my review, this won't be an issue anymore in the near future as more programs get updated to take advantage of the hardware accelerated decoding, however it does show a limitation regarding other cpu-intensive tasks.) The included wifi module worked perfectly, seeing both my 5ghz and 2.4ghz networks. For remote control, I paired it with a Logitech Wireless Touch Keyboard K400 Plus Again, I went with 5 stars not because this product is perfect, but because the only issues I have currently experienced are perfectly expected for a system at this price point that is brand new to market. Additionally, I expect the issues that it does have will be addressed in the near future. This is also coming from the perspective of intending to use this system as a media center on a 4K television. If I were expecting to use this system for gaming or as a daily driver, I would likely have come to a different conclusion.

When it worked, it met my expectations. The most demanding thing I needed it to do was stream HD web content. It did that fine., even with only two gig of ram. Up until it failed, my only beef was that 32gig is not enough to accomplish a windows 10 update. I threw in a spare 100 gig hd, cloned the OS to it and did the update. Once I finished that and got rid of everything I would have needed to revert back to the old version, the OS could fit back on the original HD. When I cloned the OS back to the original drive, it never powered up again. It took ten days to get a refund. By then, it had gone up in price by $24. I decided to buy a different brand with the Celeron J4105 processor, which supports 4k video @ 60fps, twice the storage and 4 gig of DDR4 ram. With the $20 off coupon, it only cost $210. I turns out the failure of the Intel unit was a blessing in disguise.

I bought this little guy to replace a very old WD TV Live Hub 1TB Media Center (Old Model) that hadn't had firmware upgrades in forever, was extremely slow, had an awful interface and crashed all the time. I could also never get subtitles to work on it. It was pretty amazing in 2012 but times have definitely changed. I was concerned that this little guy (Celeron i3) wouldn't have enough umph to play video off the file server where all our movies are stored but after reading some reviews I decided it should do the trick so I got this along with the Kingston Technology HyperX Impact 8GB Kit 1600MHz DDR3L CL9 SODIMM 1.35V Laptop Memory (PC3 12800) HX316LS9IBK2/8 Black . It arrived a couple days ago. First, I'm extremely impressed with how small this thing actually is when you pull it out of the box. It's very well made and heavy enough with nice rubber feet that keep it from sliding around on the desk. Given how stiff my HDMI cable is that's important. The AC adapter is a wall brick so the only thing going to the NUC is a cable which is pretty long, 6ft? The BIOS lets you play with the lighting on the front for the power button and the LED ring around the USB ports and power button. You can even turn them off which is what I've done. It's ridiculously quiet. Even with the fan profile set to "Cool" you have to be right next to it to hear the fan. Setting it up is super easy. Take the bottom off, pop the ram in, put a hard drive in (I already had a 1TB drive laying around) and put the bottom back on-less than 5 minutes. Then I did a fresh Windows 10 Pro install on it. I guess Linux is an option but I don't know how and don't really want to learn right now. After waiting overnight for Windows 10 updates because my internet is crap I installed Kodi 17.6 Krypton (formerly XMBC) and pointed it at my media share folder. A while later all my movies and TV were scanned and in the library. When I travel with my wife I plan to load movies directly on to the hard drive so we can hook it up to the hotel TV. This machine is not a performance beast like my newly built desktop PC but it's perfect for the intended use. Kodi is snappy once it gets started, navigation is quick and playback starts immediately even reading the files from the media server over Wireless-N. I've tested 1080p content and it plays fine, no stuttering or other issues. And subtitles work! No more burning them in with Handbrake. The built-in IR receiver works great with my Logitech Harmony 650 remote and with some tweaking I've got all the major functions on the remote now. Any time I need a keyboard I have a bluetooth one ready. I paid $150 for the WD media player in 2012. I wish these had existed then because for not much more money I've put together a much more capable box that allows more customization and can run Firefox and other Windows (or Linux) apps. I'm very happy with this item and my wife loves being able to actually play a movie without having to futz with the antique, slow interface on the WD media player. As a media player/streaming device I can highly recommend this computer.

Hace mas de un añito que compre esta maravilla de aparato y paso a contar mi experiencia con el. Voy a dividir la reseña en diferentes partes para que todo quede bien claro. He de decir que soy una persona a la que le encanta la informatica y un maniatico de que mis ordenadores vayan como la seda ,pero que nunca habia montado ningun ordenador ,hasta ahora,me decidi por comprarlo y montarlo y la verdad es que no se puede estar mas contento con la compra. -Primera parte: Voy a explicar un poco a a la gente que es este aparato y para que sirve ya que muchos amigos mios que me lo han visto y no tenian claro que es, y a mucha gente le pasara lo mismo, pues este aparato es igual que un ordenador de sobremesa pero muchisimo mas pequeño y muchisimo mas versatil, lo puedes usar como un ordenador normal como cualquier otro conectado a su pantalla de pc, lo puedes usar como sistema multimedia conectado a la tele del salon,ademas se puede colocar justo en la parte de atras de la tele sujeto a ella y usarlo como una smart tv pero infinitamente mejor, y para finalizar lo puedes usar como un portatil mas o menos ya que es tan pequeño ,que te lo puedes llevar y conectarlo donde quieras,que es lo que yo hago, ademas al ser tan pequeño lo puedes meter como lo tengo yo en el mueble de la sala,conectado a la tele y a todo en general y de paso no rompes la estetica del salon con un aparato mas. Aclarado lo que es este aparato decir tambien que al comprarlo viene vacio y tienes que montar tu los componentes que prefieras,para mi eso tambien es una ventaja muy grande ya que cada uno se lo monta dependiendo de sus necesidades y gastandote mas o menos dinero, un 10 en este aspecto. -2ª Parte es comolo uso yo: Pues decir que yo lo uso como centro multimedia en el salon,lo tengo conectado a la tele de la sala y veo peliculas,series o simplemente navego desde el sofa y tambien lo tengo conectado a mi equipo de musica mediante un DAC y desde el sofa pongo la musica que quiero, una autentica maravilla,lo uso con un teclado inhalambrico que a su vez hace de raton que es otra gozada, y para todo esto lo uso yo. -3ª Parte la instalacion: Empiezo por los componentes, yo compre un disco duro Kingston SSD A400 - Disco duro sólido, 2.5", SATA 3, 120 GB y una memoria ram de 8 gigas de crucial, a la hora de montarlo es relativamente facil y yo sin tener practica segui un tutorial en youtube y listo todo a la primera, eso si con un poco de paciencia. El ssd va como la seda y la memoria de 8gigas de crucial pes una garantia total de perfecto funcionamiento,recomiendo comprar unas memorias ram de un buen fabricante y no cualquier cosa, ya que no te van a dar ningun problema de nada ,siguiendo con las memorias para este ordenador en concreto la memoria tiene que tener esta especificacion ( 204-pin SO-DIMM, DDR3L 1.35 voltios ),comprarlas asi y no tendreis problema alguno,Tambien decir que el ordenador viene con 2 ranuras para las memorias y tu lo convinas como quieres , yo por ejemplo solo compre una de 8 gigas y si quiero en el futuro le meto otra de 8, pero puedes metele 4y 4 tambien,cuestion de gustos. -4ª parte Instalacion windows: En el tema de sofware decir que no he tenido el mas minimo problema de verdad, instalar windows 10 es facil, busca algun tutorial ,paciencia y ya esta.Un vez funciona ya el ordenador lo primero que recomiendo hacer es bajar los drivers de la pagina de intel y actualizar tu ordenador para que no tengas problema alguno . Y como dato y para que elordenador fluya de lujo y te dure mcho yolo que tengo hecho es instalar en el ssd solo windows, osea que no hago descargas de musica ni de pelis ni nada en el ssd ,y asi aumento y mucho su durabilidad y rendimiento, las decargas cuando las hago, las descargo a un disco duro externo y ya esta,mas acil y comodo. -5ª Parte Lo que mas me gusta de el: Pues que es una autentica pasada lo rapido que va,arranca windows en nada,y lo cierra mas rapido todavia,abre los programas super rapido,en resumen que es una maravilla. Yo las pelis me las descargo muy pesadas, de mas de 20 gigas y las mueve sin despeinarse,una gozada. 6ª Parte Lo que menos me gusta: Pues que no puede con las pelis de 4K, su procesador y su grafica integrada no pueden con estas pelis, una pena, pero en mi caso me da igual ya que mi tele no es 4K . Y lo que menos me gusta de esta maravilla es que no se porque motivo los ratones y teclados inhalambricos si los conectas directamente a sus entradas usb tienen cortes de señal y no funcionan bien,se atascan y es desesperante, pero tiene una facil solucion,yo tengo conectado un Hub usb 3.0 al ordenador y y en ese hub conecto el transmisor de mi teclado o del raton problema resuelto,todo sin cortes y como la seda, la solucion es no conectar directamente los transmisores al ordenador,se tienen que conectar a un hub o a algun cable alargador usb para que no haga interferencias. En resumen si lo que quieres es un buenisimo ordenador para uso normal,navegar ver pelis, descargas y demas no lo dudes este pequeñin es una autentica maravilla, y una relacion calidad precio genial.

ベアボーン版には、メモリとSSD、WindowsOSが入っていない。 「あわせて購入」の項目にあるメモリ8GとSSD240Gを追加し、合計27000円ほどで購入。 組み立ては簡単で、プラスドライバーで裏蓋を開けて、メモリとSSDを差し込むだけ。 最後にあらかじめ持っていたWindowsOSをインストールして完成。 CPUは値段の割にはまあまあな Intel Celeron J3455。メモリ8G、SSD240G。静音、省電力、省スペース。日常で使うPCとしては不満なし。 コストパフォーマンスがいいのにIntelのメーカー品で、中華の謎メーカーのようなギャンブル性もなく、安心して買えたのも良かった。

Preso per farci un media center collegato a tv e impianto home theater, che dire, ottimo ma fa molto di più. Ho montato 2 banchi di ddr3l da 4GB ciascuno della qumox e -al momento- un hdd da 1TB vecchiotto, aperto il NUC togliendo le 4 viti, si alza il "caddy hd", si mette la ram, si infila l'hd che si blocca ad incastro, si richiude ed è pronto, tempo 30 secondi senza nemmeno guardare le istruzioni. Installato win10pro da chiavetta, tutto perfetto, risultavano mancanti solo dei drive aggiornati del bios e della grafica intel, subito aggiornati con la comoda applicazione intel che controlla se ci sono aggiornamenti più recenti. (basta andare sul sito intel) Al momento il sistema è ottimo, perfettamente stabile, unico problema il collo di bottiglia dato dall'hdd che sostituirò quanto prima o con un ssd o con un ibrido tipo il firecuda seagate. Che aggiungere, comodissimo che quando lo accendi accenda anche la tv ad esso collegata, il bios è veramente completo e si può gestire tutto fin troppo, dai led frontali, all'accensione, al tipo di sospensione, a come vuoi che funzioni la ventolina... I video con kodi si vedono e sentono benissimo, l'audio multicanale è gestito perfettamente. Credo che 4GB di ram siano più che sufficienti per qualsiasi cosa ma consiglio un hd recente e veloce o meglio un ssd. Le dimensioni sono veramente contenute anche se il peso è di 700g, segno che il case -anche se esternamente di plastica- è veramente robusto. Esteticamente molto bello da renderlo elegante ovunque. Una delle cose migliori però rimane il fatto che sia un intel, sul sito trovi drive e aggiornamenti per ogni suo componente e credo che il supporto fornito non abbia paragoni visti i loro volumi, qualsiasi problema lo risolvono e aggiornano i drive con costanza. Per i consumi sono di soli 10-11W nell'uso normale che salgono a 13W quando la cpu è molto impegnata, bassissimi, nessun pc nemmeno si avvicina a un tale valore. Spero vi sia stata utile la mia recensione ;)

En décidant de prendre le modèle à faible puissance sans ventilateur ou celui-ci, j'étais préoccupé par le bruit des ventilateurs. Pas de problèmes ! Même à pleine charge, il est complètement silencieux ; en quelques mois d'utilisation toute la journée, je n'ai jamais entendu le ventilateur. Le rapport puissance/prix est parfait pour un utilisateur moyen comme moi. Payez plus et 'The Law of Diminishing Returns' entre en jeu. Les repères montrent qu'il est plus de trois fois plus rapide que l'ordinateur portable Toshiba de cinq ans qu'il a remplacé, et qu'il est 50 % plus rapide que le petit miniPC Beelink que j'ai acheté à l'origine mais que j'ai renvoyé à cause d'un problème. La consommation d'énergie est également extrêmement faible, l'encombrement sur le bureau est minimal et la qualité de construction est excellente. La garantie de trois ans d'Intel apporte également la tranquillité d'esprit. Comme avantage supplémentaire, j'ai essayé de l'utiliser comme un centre média connecté à ma télévision HDR et c'est excellent. La qualité vidéo et audio est parfaite.

Awesome little mini computer. Construction is solid, and anyone knowing how to put ram into a laptop, connect a sata disc drive, and install an operating system can put this together. It's easy. It has a regular HDMI connector (no adapter needed), a VGA video connector, 2 USB3 and 2 USB2 ports in addition to the SD card reader. It is inaudible when running. Although it states it can only support a max of 8gb of ram, I have 12gb installed and recognized and running. I also have two monitors (a regular 24" as well as a Huion pen monitor) operating on it. I use it for video-conferencing on a regular basis, and it works great. i updated the 0064 bios using the F7 bios recovery version to the latest 0066 from the manufacturer's website. The process was simple. I'm running it with a Linux operating system, and it works great. I'm loving this little quad core box. It's quiet, compact, and fast enough for me.