2014-01-17, 11:18
Hi
I've got two Haswell i5 NUCs. Both with 16GB ram and a 256GB Sandisk SSD, works great although slightly annoyed with noise levels so will look into purchasing the Akasa Newton H case when it's available.
I have purchased the Pulse Eight HDMI CEC internal adapter and will try to fit inside the original case, not sure if anyone tried, I haven't fitted a wireless controller in mine so there might be some space for this, I will let you know how this works out.
I'm running my devices with Windows 8.1, all latest drivers/bios (except not running very latest LAN drivers) and both XBMC Frodo (and Plex Home Theater) work great.
I'm piloting one of them via a Logitech Harmony Ultimate and it's working pretty well thus far.
The main issue I have is about when I matched output video refresh rate to video file. I sometimes get video corruption when stopping to watch the video going back to the XBMC's GUI.
The other one issue I have is when XBMC is forced shut down (stop process) when playing a video file with a different video refresh rate than Windows is configured with the screen will be completely mangled and I have to force restart the NUC to get it sorted.
Other one and I read many reports about it is that on some occasions when I start up my NUC the Audio (via HDMI) is muted. I read reports on Intel forums about that but will need to follow down there to check whether it is still present or got fixed if yes for which chipset (4400 or 5000?).
I've got two Haswell i5 NUCs. Both with 16GB ram and a 256GB Sandisk SSD, works great although slightly annoyed with noise levels so will look into purchasing the Akasa Newton H case when it's available.
I have purchased the Pulse Eight HDMI CEC internal adapter and will try to fit inside the original case, not sure if anyone tried, I haven't fitted a wireless controller in mine so there might be some space for this, I will let you know how this works out.
I'm running my devices with Windows 8.1, all latest drivers/bios (except not running very latest LAN drivers) and both XBMC Frodo (and Plex Home Theater) work great.
I'm piloting one of them via a Logitech Harmony Ultimate and it's working pretty well thus far.
The main issue I have is about when I matched output video refresh rate to video file. I sometimes get video corruption when stopping to watch the video going back to the XBMC's GUI.
The other one issue I have is when XBMC is forced shut down (stop process) when playing a video file with a different video refresh rate than Windows is configured with the screen will be completely mangled and I have to force restart the NUC to get it sorted.
Other one and I read many reports about it is that on some occasions when I start up my NUC the Audio (via HDMI) is muted. I read reports on Intel forums about that but will need to follow down there to check whether it is still present or got fixed if yes for which chipset (4400 or 5000?).
