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Möhre
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I am wondering why you guys bother about the HDMI port... I am still using gen4 NUC with ~9€ DP to HDMI cable which works totally fine.
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i am wondering is this (Intel NUC NUC6i3SYK) enough for 4k, 3d HSBS and 2d movies or not?
with 8Gb of memory and 120GB of SSD space
or i need to buy i5 version of it.
cause this is i3 intel nuc.
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fritsch
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No - if you mean 4k hevc 10 bit.
First decide what functions / features you expect from a system. Then decide for the hardware. Don't waste your money on crap.
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if i dont want to watch any movies in 4k, then it is fine. is that correct?
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2015-12-28, 02:16
(This post was last modified: 2015-12-28, 02:19 by wrxtasy.)
Agree 100% with Matt, Skylake not needed at all and a waste of money just for 1080p Kodi video playback.
These days there are powerful GPU/VPU's in Celeron Chromeboxes and Braswell's, which is exactly what you need for excellent Kodi operation.
CPU Grunt itself is fast becoming irrelevant if all you want to do is basic 1080p / SBS/HSBS (3D) / Audio and Video playback by using Kodi.
Its simple (HD Audio Passthrough included)
- H264/AVC/mpeg2 + more > up to 4K at 30Hz = Chromebox Architecture (no 1080p HEVC hardware decode)
- H264/H265/AVC/mpeg2 + more > up to 4K at 30Hz = Intel Braswell Architecture
Run OpenELEC Kodi on them both and you are good to go, and even then you only need 2GB.
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2015-12-30, 00:30
(This post was last modified: 2015-12-30, 00:31 by Karnis.)
While it's absolutely true that from a video playback perspective the Braswell is perfectly fine, I find them to be a bit underwhelming in terms of running the more demanding skins out there like AEON MQ 5 & 6. The menus & libraries run silky smooth on my Windows + nvidia machine, as well as my SATV. Heck, I found that my Chromebox ran those skins slightly better than any of the 3 Braswells I own...both Intels & the Beebox. And that's understandable to a degree, they aren't designed to be powerhouse machines.
So if using demanding skins with Kodi at the smoothest frame rate possible is important to the end user, I could certainly see justification for one of the lower end Skylakes.
I will say that I much prefer the image quality of the Beebox over either of the Intel NUCs. The image is a bit sharper & has a little more pop & depth to it than the Intel NUCs.