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Fair enough, in my case I don't need any storage in the nuc (except for os drive) as I have a TV server backend on a separate machine. Either way, sounds like the i3 will suit you so go for it
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2014-08-21, 03:17
(This post was last modified: 2014-08-21, 03:18 by BLKMGK.)
Honestly my experience with SSD has been that they can take an incredible beating. I know that they're pricey compared to rust but using them as a preprocess before moving video to a NAS you would probably go years before you burned one up.
Also, I have both an i3 and an i5 NUC of this generation. The i3 handles everything just fine but I run a full desktop on the i5 and compile XBMC regularly so I wanted the extra power. Otherwise you cannot tell the difference and I even ended up marking them to make sure I wouldn't get them mistaken for one another moving them around lol.
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I really should put my celerons through more paces because I just checked the prices and they are literally half the price of the i3 now ($160 AU vs $320 - $350 depending on FYK or FYKH). In my case I have an i3 in the media room with the 65" Panasonic VT60 where I thought I may wish to run demanding 3D content and generally want the best experience I can get, whilst I use the celerons in the lounge room (46" LCD) and bedroom (32" LCD). In all cases they are handling anything thrown at them, although it's also fair to say that we dont often watch the most demanding high bitrate content in the bedroom etc. Given the price difference though, going for Celerons (particularly if its just basic usage on additional home locations rather than primary home cinema type usage) is a good option
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I7 barely has enough for next gen codecs, I wouldn't count on NUC doing this for awhile yet.
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Hi!
I finally managed to get dualboot running with Win 8.1 and Openelec. I was very disappointed to see, that there's still the standby bug! Is it just me, or do you also have still problems with going to standby / shutting the nuc off in Openelec?
I'm on FW 27, btw.
Haswell Nuc i5 - Abel H2 case - 8GB RAM (Crucial) - Samsung 830 128GB SSD - Win 8.1 - XBMC 13 Beta 1 - Aeon MQ 5 - Harmony 600
Dreambox 7020HD - Sundtek DVB-S2 + C