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In a impulse buy I ended up ordering an LG 55LA9709 4K capable TV earlier this week.

Now I am looking around for a new XBMC HTPC. Currently I run a old Asrock Ion 330. Which is perfect for now.
But lacks the 3D and 4K capabilities.

I am now tempted to buy a NUC to replace it.
What would be the mimimum hardware (i3, i5) that I would need to run 3D and 4K without issues on the NUC?

The only 4k content out there is on Netflix (House of Cards and Breaking Bad), so you'll probably want to go with Windows 8 instead of OpenElec because the DRM garbage for SuperHD is Windows only. I believe the announcement stated that the 4k streams are available only to built-in television apps from a few manufacturers, but I'm assuming Netflix will broaden deployment at some point. Amazon also promised 4k content at CES, which presumably will be more linux friendly.

I think it'll be a while before disc/XBMC content is available. The streaming guys are blowing right past the studio/hardware squabbles over standards.