Intel BOXNUC5CPYH NUC PC with Intel Celeron N3050

This is a good product for HTPC based on OpenElec. You need to install RAM and SSD/HDD for getting it working. For running openelec you dont even need a HDD/SSD, you can install OS into USB though I have not checked that yet. The latest Openelec 6.0 with kernel version 4.0 and higher should be used. This NUC is not powerful enough for windows system smoothly, so it should be avoided . Linux based system should work well with kernel version greater than 4.0. I managed to get it work using following parts. RAM Kingston 4GB KVR16LS11/4 http://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B00CQ35GYE?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00 SSD Transcend 64GB TS64GSSD370 http://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B00K9HID2G?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s01 Keyboard Logitech K400R http://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B008QS7TRK?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00. TIP: the small receiver does not work nicely from 10 feet, its recommend to use the USB extender that comes with it. Though 4GB ram and SSD might seem to be overkill for this kind of set up, I plan to install full Linux Dstro like Ubuntu/Mint in future to get most out of it. For strictly running Openelec Rasberry PI2 might be a good alternative, but I find NUC a little more versatile for my use. I also managed to configure Logitech Harmony 650 remote with this NUC and it can power the NUC and shut it down nicely. All KODI functions can be accessed using this remote. Update 1 I tested this with playback of 1080p trailer of Mad Max encoded in h264 with bit rate of 16Mbps and it played it perfectly with cpu load under 20%. You can safely ignore the complains of other users who can't yet figure out how to play full HD video. Update 2: I played a 720p video encoded in HEVC or x265 and this little thing managed to play it smoothly. Though CPU usage went up to 50% and I am yet not sure if it was through hardware acceleration or software or both, but nonetheless it's a good sign.

たぶんWindows系だと世代的な問題も出てくると思いますが、AlmaLinux9.3で問題なく動作します。 BIOS設定画面が無駄に高解像度なせいで、小さなモニター繋いで表示されなくて焦りました。 取説の類いが何もありませんが、部品の欠品やコネクタ破損などはなく、まだまだ現役で使います。 同じものを過去に使ったことがあれば普通に使えます。

Esta mini pc tiene un tamaño y peso muy bueno y viene con soporte para la pared incluido y funciona de manera my fluida solo debo especificar que el modelo que yo compre venia sin RAM ni disco duro, el empaque excelente y su funcionamiento muy bueno yo al uso como emulador retro y centro multimedia y funciona de maravilla muy recomendable.

Lo configuré con un SSD de 120 GB Kingston A400 (aconsejo 240 o más) y 8 GB de RAM Kingston KVR16LS11/8 y un teclado inalámbrico Logitech K400 Plus. Sistemas operativos: Windows 10 Home 64 bits y Linux Mint Mate 18.3, 64 bits, en dual boot. Es para un famiiiar que lo quiere utilizar, esencialmente, como multimedia center. En Windows 10, le instalamos Microsoft Office. Linux Mint ya viene con Libre Office, etc... FIRMWARE: en Modo UEFI, con secure boot desactivado para facilitar la instalacion dual boot con Linux Mint. Disco particionado en GPT. El FIRMWARE (antiguamente Bios), permite seleccionar el sistema operativo que quieres instalar: Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Linux, etc. Acivé la configuración Windows 10. Por qué? Porque si optamos por Linux, en el administrador de dispositivos de Windows 10 nos aparecerá un punto de exclamación en los drivers de 3 dispositivos. Linux funciona igual de bien con esta configuración y nos ahorramos dolores de cabeza con los drivers de Windows 10. A uno de los puertos USB 3 traseros, le hemos conectado una dock Tacens 5PORTUMDUO2 con 2 discos duros de 3.5", para almacenar películas, vídeos, fotos etc. Va conectado al router con un cable de red y a la TV mediante un cable hdmi. Sonido compatible DTS y resolución 4K a 30 fps. Lleva WiFi 2.4 Ghz y 5G. Como servidor de red, en Linux Mint instalamos el Samba Server y System-conf-samba a partir de los repositorios oficiales, con el administrador de software que viene ya con el sistema operativo y así poder compartir el contenido de los discos USB con los diferentes dispositivos de la casa (PC, Iphone, smartphones, tablet, TV, etc). Otro software instalado: Kodi 17.6, tanto en Windows 10 como en Linux. INICIO: en Windows 10, 32 segundos todo cargado. En Linux Mint Mate, 18 segundos. -------------- CONCLUSION: Me parece un excelente producto por su relación calidad precio. Lleva funcionando una semana y no se calienta y es perfectamente silencioso. Es más pequeño de lo que parece en las fotos. Caja de aluminio con ventilaciones laterales. Un producto con la calidad Intel. Si es para utilizar como Media Center o NAS, es ampliamente suficiente. Y diría también, ocasionalmente, para algunas tareas de ofimática (Word, Excel...) y no es necesario gastarse más dinero. Si es para trabajos más exigentes y una mayor fluidez, personalmente optaría por el Intel BOXNUC7I3BNH. Es difícil ponerle algún pero dado su relación calidad precio. Gran servicio de Amazon. LLegó en 24 horas.

Installing Linux in my new NUC was something of an adventure. Hopefully, this review will make it more boring for the next person.If you're installing Windows, you need to find another review. First off, this model of NUC has the latest Intel wireless chips (as of Dec. 2015). These are supported in the 4.x kernel, but won't work in any distro with a 3.x kernel. I tried two flavors of Ubuntu 15.10, and the latest Fedora. The built-in Wi-Fi, Blue-tooth and USB 3.0 all work out of the box. It is recommended that you update to the latest BIOS. I downloaded the firmware from Intel, and installing it was easy (once I finally got into the BIOS, see below). Getting into the BIOS was the first hurdle. I have an older HD TV that doesn't have an "over-scan" adjustment (which means that the top and bottom edges get cut off). So I hooked it up with a VGA cable. Booted it up and got a blank screen with no response to the keyboard. Did some Googling and found the NUC BIOS won't work without the correct hardware. It needs to have a compatible video, keyboard and mouse, or it won't even boot. I switched to a HDMI cable, and it booted right up. So if you don't see a splash-screen saying "Intel NUC", then doesn't it like your hardware. I've read that the USB 3.0 ports mess with some wireless keyboards, but my Logitech K400 works fine. The standard BIOS defaults seem to work fine with Linux. I looked, but didn't even see any options for turning off "Fast Boot" or "Secure Boot". So unless you have a specific reason, I would just accept the factory defaults and leave the BIOS alone. I first tried booting from a Linux DVD and pretty much everything worked. The top and bottom edges of the desktop didn't show on the screen. But I kept clicking past the edge of the screen till I found the Menu button. Set the video resolution one step down and now I have full screen. Didn't get sound through the HDMI cable, but I think there may be a system setting to fix that. After I updated the BIOS, the NUC would no longer boot off the DVD. It would start to load Linux, then just hang up halfway through. I hit F10 during startup, and found the BIOS now showed two different options for booting the DVD in either Legacy mode or EFI mode. Tried EFI mode and it booted right up. So, depending on your boot media, you have to try both modes to see which one works. Installing Linux onto a blank hard drive requires creating an EFI boot partition (which has to be FAT32). I suspect that if I had just told the installer to use the entire hard drive, it would have figured everything out by itself. But I wanted room to install a second Linux distro, or maybe even Windows someday. So I manually partitioned the hard drive to leave some empty space. This took a couple of tries to get the boot loader in the right place. I tried telling the installer to put the boot files in the boot partition, but that didn't work. The next time I just told it to put the boot loader on the hard drive, and the installer put it where the BIOS could find it. Modern Linux distros can use EFI booting. But different distros use slightly different installers, and there is no standard look or labeling. If possible, just let the installer do all the work. If you're doing it manually, don't be surprised if it takes you a couple of tries to get it to boot properly. UPDATE The BIOS on this PC seem to be very poorly done. I had it set it up for UEFI booting, so I switched off the Legacy boot option. That somehow killed the F2 option to get into the BIOS settings. I had it set up to boot into Linux just fine, then after a few times it started giving me a blank screen on bootup. Sometimes the Linux Recovery Mode will fix it, sometimes not. I've been building PCs and installing Linux for 15 years, and never had a PC give me this much trouble. The hardware itself seems to run fine. But right now I never know from one time to the next whether it will boot up or not.