Time for a hardware refresh

[Kooldino]

Well, my PSU just died today in the machine I was about to rebuild, and at that point the only thing I'd be keeping would be the case and the drive.

So I think I'm just going to bite the bullet and downsize to the latest and greatest Intel NUC:

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-nuc5i7ryh.html

I'll use my SSD hard drive and swap it over, get 16GB of Crucial RAM, and call it a day.

[Umfriend]

I never took those seriously but because of your post I had a look at it and it does look promising. Still, I would consider replacing the PSU with an el-cheapo one for now and wait for Skylake, if only becuase you might go for an even lower TDP model and get better video.

[UtwigMU]

Buy used PSU for 10€ or buy good Seasonic/Corsiar... PSU and carry it over to next build.

[Umfriend]

Well, to carry it over to a NUC might be a bit of a challenge

[UtwigMU]

Sorry, I'm busier lately, so I read fora on the diagonal.

If I understood there's an old computer which is fine apart from PSU - paying 10$ to make it work and then use it or sell it seems prudent.

And NUC as I understood is temporary until more badass CPUs come out, so it would be prudent in this case to buy a seasonic or some other good brand and then replace CPU/MoBo/RAM in a year or so.

[Kooldino]

Basically the cost of the PSU, mobo, CPU, and RAM would have been about the same cost of the NUC+RAM. **** it. lol.

[Kooldino]

FYI - This is the other SFF machine I have - it's my Windows 8.1 box.

4th generation Intel® Core™ i7-4770R 3.90 GHz

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4888#sp

[Kooldino]

Apparently my Gigabyte Brix is faster than the NUC I just bought:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-5557U+%40+3.10GHz&id=2502

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4770R+%40+3.20GHz&id=2137

[Kooldino]

Looks like another swing and a miss...

The Iris graphics aren't necessarily better regarding the higher model number. Again my Brix Pro leaves the NUC in the dust:

NUC:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Iris-Graphics-6100.125591.0.html

Brix:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Iris-Pro-Graphics-5200.90965.0.html

Not that I game on my linux machine, but I might have just gone with another Brix rather than the NUC if I knew before I pulled the trigger. Oh, well.

[Umfriend]

Well yes... That Brix has one of the fastest consumer CPUs currently available, not easy to top that esp. in that form factor. But I imagine the Intel is far quiter, it is in fact smaller.

[Kooldino]

Yup, the NUC is quieter. It has the same footprint, but it's shorter.

Currently running Kubuntu 15.04 on the NUC, and it screams.