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Devices => PC's and Other Hardware => Topic started by: eddyshere on January 05, 2013, 01:46:14 pm
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Just tried to run MC18 on a tiny Intel NUC. As the CPU has an intel HD4000 I thought that theoretically it would work but can now report and confirm that it surprisingly works very very well. Wanted to make a tiny setup in my bedroom and it's really surprising what this small box can do. I run it with 16GB of 1600 so-dimm ram and a samsung 64gb msata ssd...red october HQ also works decently on it.
ADD PLEASE NOTE : An OCZ NOCTI msata ssd was not recognized by the NUC bios. The samsung worked out-of-the-box !!
The MC benchmark is the following :
=== Running Benchmarks (please do not interrupt) ===
Running 'Math' benchmark...
Single-threaded integer math... 7.548 seconds
Single-threaded floating point math... 5.031 seconds
Multi-threaded integer math... 3.897 seconds
Multi-threaded mixed math... 2.635 seconds
Score: 994
Running 'Image' benchmark...
Image creation / destruction... 0.635 seconds
Flood filling... 0.696 seconds
Direct copying... 0.657 seconds
Small renders... 2.137 seconds
Bilinear rendering... 2.301 seconds
Bicubic rendering... 2.224 seconds
Score: 2543
Running 'Database' benchmark...
Create database... 0.826 seconds
Populate database... 2.586 seconds
Save database... 0.576 seconds
Reload database... 0.076 seconds
Search database... 1.998 seconds
Sort database... 1.891 seconds
Group database... 1.019 seconds
Score: 2396
JRMark (version 18.0.106): 1978
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Nice!
What CPU does it have? I thought these came with Core i3's or i5's?
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Its a Core i3-3217U, 1.8GHz, 2 cores / 4 threads.
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yep i3-3217U 1.8ghz...running with windows 8 which I still hate by the way...
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Wow, that's impressive. My AMD E-450 APU (18w TDP) only scored 689 total...It only has support for single channel ddr 1333 memory whereas that intel board does dual channel ddr 1600 so I bet that's a big chunk of the improved performance.
I'll have to seriously consider one of these Intel NUC for my next HTPC. Can you bistream all the digital formats over HDMI with that?
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How noisy is that fan?
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Bitstreaming should work (haven't tried it out yet). The fan is virtually inaudible even after 1hour of bd playback. I'm very pleasantly surprised with this NUC. Will buy some more for other rooms in the house.
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I've been using the same. Works great. 4gb ram, 128gb msata, what I had lying around the house.
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Bitstreaming should work (haven't tried it out yet). The fan is virtually inaudible even after 1hour of bd playback. I'm very pleasantly surprised with this NUC. Will buy some more for other rooms in the house.
Go to your windows sound properties. Go to the properties of the HDMI output. Under "Supported formats" tab you should see a list of codecs it's capable of bitstreaming. Do you have dolby true hd and dts-hd on the list? I'd also be interested in what bit depths and sample rates it supports.
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will hook it up to my living room amp...windows shows only the codecs and abilities of the hooked up material (EDID). In my bedroom I have a simple samsung lcd which accepts no compressed format nor more than 96khz/24bit. will let u know
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Go to your windows sound properties. Go to the properties of the HDMI output. Under "Supported formats" tab you should see a list of codecs it's capable of bitstreaming. Do you have dolby true hd and dts-hd on the list? I'd also be interested in what bit depths and sample rates it supports.
Bitstreams without any issue. All formats (dolby true hd and dts-hd incl.). On the pcm side multichannel up to 192/24.
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interesting stuff wonder if you could put fan less cooling on it
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Really no need you can barely hear the fan...