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2013-12-13, 23:31
(This post was last modified: 2013-12-14, 00:31 by iHateMemphiz.)
Gotta say I love the NUC form factor but good grief, I'm really not having any luck with stability
On the i5 haswell, each morning I get a memory filled up error and need to reboot the machine
also, lots of my vc1 videos don't play < sigh >
same issue with my i3 NUC (previous generation) as far as video goes
All running Windows 8.1 64-bit
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On my i5 with old graphics drivers and dxva2 disabled, i get near perfect playback of everything
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Hello everyone, I was about to post a new topic on this subject but found this intel nuc sticky.
I'm in the process of purchasing an Intel Nuc i3 but dont know which ssd to get. I was initially considering an Intel 525 Series 60 GB SSD but I've read that it sometimes fails to boot. And now Im a little worried and kind of hesitant. I looked into a Crucial ssd but that has its own set of problems.
Question:
Which SSD works flawlessly for your Nuc? I just need a reliable one that wouldn't fail on me.
btw, I plan on running xbmc + advanced launcher with Quick WMC for livetv. This is purely just for streaming with no recording.
please help.
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I use the intel msata one (just 30GB), its been fine.
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thanks for the replies, I think those reviews on the ssd are just old, dated from around July. Its probably fixed by now.
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Guys, I'm concerned about the temps of my new i5.
Core Temp shows 60 degrees celsius for both cores while playing music with milkdrop visualisation. Cooling is set to 40%.
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
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2013-12-15, 01:25
(This post was last modified: 2013-12-15, 01:27 by zoroeyes.)
Hi all
Just a little feedback, I've been using imyllari's last patched build and it's been so solid I've not seen any reason to go to recent nightlies (unless someone can give me a good reason that I've missed in the thread this is??).
Got my harmony ultimate working nicely too (though I still have the hang when trying to sleep, think I'm missing some setting or something here because I read some people aren't having this issue on openelec?
My question is, I've just put one of the new intel 7260 ac wireless card into the i5 Nuc to see whether it'd perform ok in case i needed to put one of these boxes into a room without wired LAN. Anyhow, when connecting to my netgear r6300 ac router (on the 5ghz connection I.e. The quick one) the card connects but is showing something stupidly slow like 5mbps, whereas if I connect to the 2.4ghz connects (the N connection) it's showing around 150mbps. Basically I was wondering if anyone knows anything about the latest wireless cards on openelec, do you think it's missing drivers? And if so, how would someone update a driver in openelec (over ssh?)
Any help would be great, then I can feed back whether these cards are any good for anyone else consider the new faster wireless standard for their nuc
Cheers
Intel NUC i7 - OpenELEC - 16GB Ram - 1TB NVME/1TB SSD / LG OLED77GX6LA / Denon AVC-X4700H / Panasonic DP-UB9000 / Monitor Audio 5.2.4 / Twin REL HT1003
Server: AMD 2950x / 32 GB Ram / 7x Samsung 970 Pro 1TB NVME drives / 24 WD Red 4TB HDDs / 10GB Nic / LSI HBA
Network: 1 x MikroTik CCR1009-7G-1C-1S+PC / 2 x MikroTik CRS309-1G-8S+IN 10G / 2 x Ubiquiti NanoHD
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Hi fritsch
Thanks for the reply and yes you've really blitzed the issues in a very short time so credit to all involved. If you advise that we now move onto the more recent builds, are these available from the openelec site or do they need to be downloaded an compiled (I'm a Linux noob so I've always waited for the full USB stick route when installing versions).
As for the wireless card, if the latest drivers are part of the build then wouldn't the build I'm currently running probably contain them already?
I'll also try to measure some real throughput but it was buffering for 30 seconds or so for every few seconds worth of playback so it's certainly not performing at AC speeds that's for sure (I know this because I run 2 netgear r6300s as a wireless bridge from upstairs to downstairs and the link speed is nearly 900mbps and it runs full 40gb blu ray m2ts files with hd audio without breaking a sweat. But the new card, connecting to the master r6300 can't even stream for a few seconds without major buffering.
Very confusing, hence my question about drivers
Thanks again
Intel NUC i7 - OpenELEC - 16GB Ram - 1TB NVME/1TB SSD / LG OLED77GX6LA / Denon AVC-X4700H / Panasonic DP-UB9000 / Monitor Audio 5.2.4 / Twin REL HT1003
Server: AMD 2950x / 32 GB Ram / 7x Samsung 970 Pro 1TB NVME drives / 24 WD Red 4TB HDDs / 10GB Nic / LSI HBA
Network: 1 x MikroTik CCR1009-7G-1C-1S+PC / 2 x MikroTik CRS309-1G-8S+IN 10G / 2 x Ubiquiti NanoHD