Intel Launches 4k-enabled Quad Core NUC

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-nuc6i7kyk-features-configurations.html

by alanfranz • 10 years ago

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Fiaxhs• 10 years ago

Really nice, except the design. I mean it looks like the front ports where aligned via CSS vertical-align. And the skull probably looks cool if you're 14.

hhandoko2• 10 years ago

FYI, plain lid (sans-Skull) is included in the package.

dikei2• 10 years ago

The gaming performance is too low to justify the price. Intel Graphics is still nowhere near the performance of discrete GPU from Nvidia or AMD.

JorgeGT2• 10 years ago

I agree, the price at Amazon.com is $673 (and you still need RAM and a SSD). You can build a pretty decent gaming PC at that price, the only disadvantage being portability. But how often do you need to move your gaming PC?

sharperer• 10 years ago

I picked mine up from B&H for $650 including shipping.

dogma11384• 10 years ago

The Iris Pro 580 has about the performance of a desktop GTX 750ti which isn't bad, it can actually match the performance of "discrete" low to mid range mobile GPU's from both companies like the oh so popular GTX 750/850M.

You won't get any decent GPU in a package this small anyhow, that said you can plug in an external GPU via the Thunderbolt port with ease.

petra• 10 years ago

How competitive is the Iris Pro 580 price wise ?

bhouston5• 10 years ago

According to:

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

NVIDIA GeForce 750 Ti is rated at 3,683.

Intel Iris Pro 580 is rated at 1,921.

That still seems like almost a factor of 2x between them.

creshal• 10 years ago

Didn't Intel plan to release Thunderbolt eGPU addons for it?

The price is still silly, but at least you could get decent performance on it if you wanted.

dikei2• 10 years ago

The Razer core is $499 for the enclosure only, which make the price even harder to swallow.

izacus2• 10 years ago

Considering the size of gaming graphics cards, having a NUC is kinda pointless then :)

braderhart2• 10 years ago

Yes. Thunderbolt 3 supports 40Gbps and should allow for an external GTX 1070 or 1080. The cheapest Thunderbolt 2 PCIe chassis on Amazon is around $200, and I don't see why we can't have a Thunderbolt 3 PCIe chassis at this price point.

imtringued• 10 years ago

They missed an opportunity to add GDDR5 directly on the mainboard. That's how AMD is cranking out pretty good performance for the PS4 despite it using an APU.

undersuit• 10 years ago

The Intel CPU used in this product has a 128MB L4 cache to be used by the CPU and GPU. It has it's own benefits compared to the PS4's GDDR5 unified memory approach.

walrus012• 10 years ago

We had a previous discussion about this, and for its price ($675 with no RAM or SSD?) you can build a really nice mini-ITX system that uses a full size PCI-Express 3.0 video card. The mini-itx system will run circles around this with its laptop CPU. With the right mini-itx case it will still fit nicely into a home theatre setup or in relatively small spaces.

SwellJoe2• 10 years ago

I'm shopping for a laptop lately, and you can actually get a pretty decent midrange laptop for that price (with a discrete GTX 940M or 950M GPU) and a 1080P display. It won't have an i7 in that price range, but with a better GPU you'd be able to play games more effectively, and an i5 is fine for everything I ever do. So, yeah, I agree...this is pricey for what it is.

I've also been surprised to find that laptops are now about the same price as similar specs in a desktop or small form factor mini PC.

alanfranzoni2• 10 years ago

Sure, the laptop comparison is interesting. But the real point of this i7 is that it's quad core (there're mobile i7 processors, especially in the U line, which are dual core), and that usually pushes up the price quite a bit. But as a portable desktop/development machine, I think the idea is quite interesting, maybe one of the most interesting that came out lately.

If only Apple kept up with Mac Mini updates...

rektide• 10 years ago

For example: Acer Aspire V Nitro was onsale from Newegg for $650 recently. 15", i7-4720HQ, 1080P, 960M, 8GB ram /w one slot open. Haswell era but that just makes me want to see a comparison all the more.

The really nice thing about this unit is that it has dual M.2 slots (for if you want to throw absurd NVMe at it) and it has the new Thunderbolt (so you can plug an expensive external GPU enclosure on it). Either one of these paths will cost you that $650 purchase price again! But there's nothing else out there with this kind of performance density, carry-ability really. (Perhaps until the xb1s?)

lloydsparkes6• 10 years ago

I got one of these the day it came out.

Yes its potentially more expensive than an Mini-ITX system. But it depends on your priorities.

For me form factor, and power usage, were most important.

This is my new setup: http://lloydsparkes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/CCaptur...

And for a development work station, with light gaming (I have an Xbox One for gaming) the performance is amazing!

Zelmor• 10 years ago

Looks nice. +1 for the ergonomic keyboard, I'm looking to buy one myself. Just gotta get one in dvorak...

Is that a standing desk?

zanybear• 10 years ago

I was interested in the same setup, curios how it performs for development and what kind of development you do (os, tools).

Thanks

GordonS• 10 years ago

Given the size of those 2 monitors it doesn't really look like a smallee form factor would have been an issue?

izacus2• 10 years ago

The problem with that is getting a chasis that's small and will fit a mini-ITX motherboard with a standard two-slot sized GPU.

Last time I looked there were only a handful available and together with the power supply they were well over 200$

bobsil1• 10 years ago

Console: Fractal Node 202 $120 with power supply

Shoebox: Cooler Master 130 $60, EVGA Bronze 500W power supply $44

hathym• 10 years ago

but they want it to be totally cool. Literally.

nzjrs• 10 years ago

nice mini-ITX system that uses a full size PCI-Express 3.0 video card

any examples?

detaro• 10 years ago

Link to the previous discussion, which has some examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11743577

arthurfm• 10 years ago

Depending upon how long the full-size graphics card is, the Dan A4-SFX [1][2], NCase M1 [3][4], and NFC Systems S4 Mini [5][6] mITX cases might be worth a look.

[1] https://www.dan-cases.com/dana4.php

[2] https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/dan-a4-sfx-the-sma...

[3] https://www.ncases.com/

[4] https://hardforum.com/threads/ncase-m1-a-crowdfunded-mini-it...

[5] http://nfc-systems.com/shop/s4-mini-chassis

[6] https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/nfc-systems-s4-min...

sethhochberg2• 10 years ago

I've found the Zotac NEN (branded as a Steam Machine, but obviously perfectly capable with any other linux / Windows OS) to be another great solution to the problem of getting a very compact machine with capable hardware.

https://www.zotac.com/us/product/mini_pcs/nen-steam-machine

It uses a soldered GPU roughly comparable to an NVIDIA GTX 960, so it does 4K@60hz over HDMI 2.0, and has some really killer IO options. Dual gigabit ethernet, Intel wifi chipset, M.2 PCIe and SATA, USB-C 3.0, etc, etc... Upgradable desktop-class CPU, upgradable RAM, and often runs totally silent.

I spent a long time evaluating various mITX builds (I've been in the DIY enthusiast PC game for years and years), but eventually had to bite the bullet and realize that I couldn't build anything this small and this powerful for comparable cost.

tachion• 10 years ago

Any advice for someone interested purely in CPU cores/speed, power consumption, large amounts of ECC memory, silence and some storage options (like 2.5" SSD fitting the box) but not at all in GPU power, when it comes to such small systems?

bhouston5• 10 years ago

Pretty decent GPU performance, 80% performance of the non-overclocked 4790K, which is my go to desktop processor these days. And it has 40% of the performance of the top end processors available.

The GPU is rated 1,921 on the PassMark website, which is about 6x slower than the top GPUs. It is 3x slower than what were mid-range GPUs 4 years ago. It is okay-ish, but it is pretty slow compared to what is available.

Thus it is a good desktop machine for non-3D workflows. Like using Word or Web Browsing at 4K. I can not imagine anyone having problems with that. It will likely be quite snappy.

I think anyone interested in 3D games will be dissatisfied with the GPU performance, and that will be very pronounced at high screen (4K) resolutions.

I could see picking these up for our non-developer non-content creator employees. But not for our developers or 3D artists.

nextos2• 10 years ago

I find fanless designs that use Intel NUCs, or similar, way more interesting [1-5]. If I want power, I'd do a custom build and use a much bigger form factor for better cooling and FLOPS/$.

[1] http://www.fit-pc.com/web/

[2] http://www.logicsupply.com/

[3] http://www.aleutia.com/computers/

[4] http://www.cirrus7.com/produkte

[5] http://www.fanlesstech.com/

petecox• 10 years ago

Well obviously this is a "performance" NUC but it surprises me they don't offer a Core-M model (price?), which would facilitate a fanless 'kit', without specialised 3rd-party housing.

I don't need the performance, so if I'd probably go with the budget sensitive Celeron-based Brix that is fanless. Braswell based, so I guess Apollo Lake will be another year away.

bicubic• 10 years ago

Web browsing at 4K is a surprisingly expensive task in itself. I own a Surface Book and one of my biggest gripes (aside from the broken firmware) is that the integrated GPU is too weak to drive browser rendering fast enough to keep up with the touch screen on the vast majority of websites* . This gets a lot worse when hooked up to an actual external 4k display - the scrolling latency is pretty unpleasant.

* It seems that they optimized Edge to have really good scrolling performance, but ff/chrome/opera all have serious scrolling issues.

jschwartzi• 10 years ago

I have the same problem globally in Linux. On dual 4k monitors, scrolling isn't an animation so much as it's a slow progression of frames in a slideshow.

microcolonel• 10 years ago

FWIW, I run 2d desktop apps and the web browser at 2560x1440@144Hz just fine on my NUC6i7KYK. I use a non-composited desktop with DRI3 turned on. Tear-free in chromium (since it does internal compositing buffering) and perfectly smooth.

choosername• 10 years ago

word at 4k

why, that's certainly not a striking argument

elcct3• 10 years ago

Well, you could tape your screen around to just show 1080p

ido• 10 years ago

If you want extra 3d juice I guess you can connect one of these to a Thunderbolt 3 external gpu.

braderhart2• 10 years ago

This has Thunderbolt 3 with 40Gbps output, so once the external chassis start coming out you can use an external GTX 1080 with this.

trengrj• 10 years ago

Did Intel just release a PC with a skull on it?

petepete• 10 years ago

Don't worry, it comes with an "Additional lid without skull on it".

quantumhobbit• 10 years ago

Can I get an additional lid with flames so that it will go faster?

hhandoko2• 10 years ago

Product codename whilst in development was Skull Canyon:

http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/74691/Skull-Canyon

wmf• 10 years ago

Intel's "extreme gaming" stuff has had skulls on it for years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Skulltrail http://www.anandtech.com/show/7803/intel-ssd-730-480gb-revie...

damienkatz• 10 years ago

Are they the baddies?

antisthenes• 10 years ago

Would you prefer they had the rat's anus on it instead?

hoodoof• 10 years ago

Mentioned by Jeff Atwood https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-golden-age-of-x86-gaming/

Arnt2• 10 years ago

So it has three video outputs, but can it drive all three?

The big advantage of a stationary computer over a laptop these days is that it can drive displays, in the plural, so that your use-case is the only factor deciding how many screens to have.

lloydsparkes6• 10 years ago

Intel say it can drive 3x 4k Screens at the same time (2 over DP @ 60Hz, 1 over HDMI 2 ~ 30Hz if I recall correctly)

Arnt2• 10 years ago

What? It doesn't have 2×DP according to the specs at the top of the page.

m_eiman• 10 years ago

I like that they're putting a Thunderbolt 3 port on it, perhaps this generation of Thunderbolt can escape the high end and be more generally useful?

valarauca1• 10 years ago

Thunderbolt 3 is going to rule the world (or will shortly).

Thunderbolt 3 is USB3.2 (Or the new USB-C that is being hyped). At the same time it is also Mini-Display Port, and Mini-PCIe.

This connector is posed to eat the world.

drcross• 10 years ago

I've been waiting for a long time for decent TB3 peripherals, manufacturers are very slow. I simply want a thunderbolt to dual hdmi with a few USBs so that I can put my tower on the opposite side of my room.

SmellyGeekBoy• 10 years ago

wicked ... totally cool

...With words like this and the skull design, at least their marketing department are "down with the kids" - rad!

ourmandave• 10 years ago

Strangely, none of the pictures gives you a point of reference to it's actual size (which is 8.3" x 4.5" x 1.1").

Usually they show it being held up or next to a common reference, like a quarter, or coffee cup, or the front page of today's newspaper.

JorgeGT2• 10 years ago

I guess the ports (USB, HDMI) give you a decent size estimation? Or at least for me it does.

lloydsparkes6• 10 years ago

Its about the size of a VHS tape

coredog642• 10 years ago

A what?

dbyte• 10 years ago

This is pure marketing-driven engineering. Not a bad thing per-se but they should start considering also a more pragmatic approach. They should pick a form-factor that can be future-proofed and avoid changing their mind every iteration. Current NUC form factor is too small for high TDP cpu, because of cooling, and instead of adjusting the current form-factor (e.g. expanding its width) they created another (maybe pointless) design. Advice to management start considering also the medium-term landscape. I will be more than happy to replace my NUCs is you give me consistency. If in doubt ask Apple.

cm21872• 10 years ago

I agree, I don't see why fundamentally a desktop CPU cannot fit in a small form factor. It could be a bit bigger than the skull canyon, say 2 or 3 times as high and still qualify to be called a mini PC.

epistasis• 10 years ago

I find this type of oversight to be way too common whenever I try to venture into buying PC hardware.

Not only is the content of the marketing site drivel and less than useful, but the design of the technical side, such as finding drivers or tech documentation, is horrific as far as web design.

I have a feeling that because the leaders in the field are so bad at it (for example see Bill Gates critical emails of microsoft.com, which to this day have not been corrected), everybody else sets their bar fairly low.

It's bleeding into things like Ubuntu too now. When I try to go look up technical details on Snap, what can I find? Basically nothing except a tutorial. Click click click click and the same content over and over again presented in different ways.

ClassyPuff• 10 years ago

Pretty decent GPU performance, 80% performance of the non-overclocked 4790K, which is my go to desktop processor these days

I would get one of these the day it come out.

andybak• 10 years ago

For anyone else baffled by another TLA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Unit_of_Computing

lsaferite2• 10 years ago

And for someone baffled by TLA?

akaij• 10 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-letter_acronym

Esau• 10 years ago

A review, in case in interests anyone:

http://nucblog.net/2016/05/skull-canyon-nuc-review/

jpt49• 10 years ago

A few of my friends and I are working on the design of a robust, portable computing form factor. After previously consdering various of the Gigabyte Brix Pro series, we settled on the Skull Canyon as the core of the ensemble, currently composed of:

1) Intel NUC Kit NUC6i7KYK

2) 32 (2 x 16) GiB DDR4 2133MHz RAM (G.SKILL Ripjaws) 3) 512 GB M.2 NVMe SSD (Samsung 950 Pro)

4) 9.7" 2048x1536 DisplayPort Monitor (Adafruit Qualia kit)

5) 104 key mechanical keyboard w/Cherry MX Blue switches (DAS Professional)

Everything worked the first time it was plugged together, and now the system can run StarCraft II: LoTV with medium settings under Wine on Arch GNU/Linux. The next steps are to transform the output from a LiFePo4 motorcycle battery (via a DC-DC converter) to the correct voltage, furnish a case and smaller keyboard, and start testing/optimizing the setup in the field.

Edit: The 45W TDP of the NUC6i7KYK was its main advantage when compared to discretely sourcing comparable or superior components for a mini-ITX build. Even after doubling the power draw to account for a screen, speakers, and additional cooling, two kilograms of lithium should provide two hours of roaming battery life (and weight minimization is low on our priority list).

gm-conspiracy2• 10 years ago

Pics? Please.

jpt49• 10 years ago

A picture of the initial set-up and first boot from USB: https://github.com/jpt4/cots/blob/master/IMG_20160522_053135...

kogepathic4• 10 years ago

4) 9.7" 2048x1536 DisplayPort Monitor (Adafruit Qualia kit)

That monitor is horribly overpriced for what you get.

The LCD can be purchased in QTY 1 from AliExpress for $25 USD with free shipping to almost anywhere in the world. [1]

A guy in Japan makes a DP board which is better than the Adafruit one and which you can buy for about $40 USD shipped from Japan (3,500 JPY + 800 JPY shipping). [2]

I've bought 5 so far and they all work great. One was DOA but the seller kindly shipped me a replacement free of charge. It's also 5V powered, so you can power it directly from the computer using a USB cable, no need for an extra 9V (seriously, 9V. why?) power supply.

You can easily laser cut a stand from plywood or lexan to mount the LCD. Or, you can buy the actual iPad aluminium housing ($22 + $8 for the digitizer glass) and mount the adapter on the back.

It really bothers me that Adafruit is selling that kit for $225 when you can build one yourself for well under $100. Their profit margins must be insane.

[1] http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB...

(If the link is broken, just search AliExpress for the LP097QX1)

[2] http://abusemark.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&...

coredog642• 10 years ago

I've made one as well (using the iPad housing). The most difficult part is mounting the adapter on the back: The cable from the panel is somewhat short and I had to pay an extortionate price to get the right size standoffs that were short enough not to stress the cable. It would be helpful if someone published the slot location/dimensions (hint, hint).

When I started, I emailed Adafruit about selling the stand separate from the kit. They mentioned they'd take it under advisement, and that was the end of it.

fhood• 10 years ago

I am sure that most people are aware of how overpriced adafruit is. I still use them when I prototype because they test their products, their website is a fun place to visit, and they tend to support their products with tutorials. If I want 50 of something I would never use adafruit, but for individual items I am fine with supporting them.

squeaky-clean• 10 years ago

Thanks for this info, I know Adafruit is overpriced, but had no idea where to go about doing it myself.

Why do both drivers have this warning? What would make it not work with an HDMI adapter, and is there any way to somehow use this with an HDMI output?

Just to make sure this is very clear, this adapter will NOT work with HDMI connectors, will NOT work with HDMI to DisplayPort adapters (passive or active)

dv_dt2• 10 years ago

I don't doubt for many products you can assemble it yourself more cheaply with the input of time. But, a price factor of 2.25 over raw parts (COGS, cost of goods sold) is pretty reasonable overhead. It's not the best margin, but it's right within reasonable for paying for assembly, inventory housing, warranty coverage, etc.

For reference: https://www.eevblog.com/2016/06/03/eevblog-887-the-economics...

chx• 10 years ago

NOTE: FPC connector which attaches the panel to adapter board is VERY fragile. User must be very careful lifting up the connector tab and pushing it back into place.

There's value in not having to fiddle with such a thing. Also, there's http://dp2retina.rozsnyo.com/ which is more expensive but probably better. They also have a driver for the Retina MacBook http://dp2mbpr.rozsnyo.com/

elcct3• 10 years ago

Thank you for posting this. I think paying $100 extra is not too much for saving yourself from the trouble of organising all of this. It is beautiful that the world has things for everyone to explore. I would certainly go DIY route, because I am interested in those things, but I also get that there are people who couldn't be bothered less about putting this thing together and just get the premium service.

jpt49• 10 years ago

Thank you very much for this detailed alternative. Echoing other commenters, I chose the Adafruit Qualia kit (not even buying the screen and driver board discrete and separate from Adafruit) as an exercise in known, commercially available components. Subsequent iterations will definitely minimize the convenience margin, so long as the resulting custom product does not suffer in functionality.

The Alibaba link is live and excellent; I was for a while considering a 14" Carbon X1 screen (2560 x 1440) [0], but the 4:3 aspect ratio of the iPad Mini ultimately won out.

Your Japanese connection is a good resource to have (and quite gloriously culturally shameless [1]).

[0] http://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-14-LP140QH1-SP-A2-with-to...

[1] http://abusemark.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&...

PascLeRasc4• 10 years ago

like this? http://imgur.com/a/ee2hX

If you don't mind the size, you could save a ton of travel space with a 60% mech board like the Poker. You could easily fit all of that into a backpack closed, but I don't know about the Das fitting in.

gambiting4• 10 years ago

That is absolutely amazing, I love miniature computers like this! What's in it?

benologist• 10 years ago

You can get actual backpack desktops now too - http://www.tomshardware.com/news/vr-backpacks-msi-zotac-chai...

rpgmaker• 10 years ago

I love the ncase but they sure are expensive. The Cougar QBX is a nice and cheaper alternative. It doesn't come in silver though.

jpt49• 10 years ago

Most impressive. Yes, approximately that, running off motorcycle batteries, thus the compromise of no discrete GPU, which would (conservatively) triple the power budget.

Regarding the keyboard, on the roadmap is a hand-made "gull wing" (hinged thumb joint) split mechanical keyboard, in the style of AcidFire's design [0] but with only 44 keys total: four for each long finger, six for each thumb, 22 per hand.

[0] https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=44940.1300

growt2• 10 years ago

What are you trying to do with that setup?

illegalsmile• 10 years ago

That's my question too.. How is this any better than my toughbook that's similarly spec'd but designed and tested for years?

jpt49• 10 years ago

1) Replace my heavy but relatively delicate four year old Asus gaming laptop with a solid state machine that can be packed in a Pelican case and dropped down the stairs without concern.

2) Try my hand at hardware a bit below the metalshop, a bit beyond Arduino.

triangleman• 10 years ago

This would run faster natively on Windows rather than Wine, right?

kbenson• 10 years ago

I think maybe they included the Starcraft II reference as a way to gauge performance, not as the primary purpose of the systems.

That said, apparently Wine performance loss is quite variable and ranges from negligible to quite large, depending on drivers and what actions the program is attempting (because not all syscalls that are proxies have direct equivalents, or may be as fast, but also may be faster, etc). But I haven't used Wine in a long time.

jpt49• 10 years ago

No doubt. SCII:LotV is the most graphically intense game I run on a regular basis, and my personal performance benchmark. If it didn't work, I would lose trust in the overall capabilities of the system.

MulliMulli• 10 years ago

AMD releases a few low budget cards later this month (RX460 ~$100) so you can build a halfway decent gaming rack for $400-500.

samwestdev• 10 years ago

Way way too pricy

bitL• 10 years ago

ZBOX NEN seems to be better for gaming due to 970M, albeit a bit pricier. 4x faster GPU, even some 4k games are playable. And very quiet.

cm21872• 10 years ago

It's not new news, they were released a month ago. I have one, it's pretty fast but it's also much nosier than less powerful mini PCs.

jimaek• 10 years ago

Still waiting for HTPCs that support HDMI 2.0a aka HDR support. Unfortunately this one doesn't.

twoooeazz• 10 years ago

4k (3840 × 2160 @ 60Hz) is already possible since the NUC Rock Canyon models[0] and Maple Canyon models[1], all based on 5th gen core processors code named Broadwell, available since Q1/2015.

The latest are the Swift Canyon models[2] based on the 6th gen core processors code named Skylake, available since Q4/2015, joined now by Skull Canyon[3].

[0] http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/77659

[1] http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/75423

[2] http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/85413

[3] http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/74691

alanfranzoni2• 10 years ago

It seems that all those top out at dual core, btw. Any quad core?

themihai2• 10 years ago

no a/d wifi... :|

themihai2• 10 years ago

No a/d wifi... :|

gcb0• 10 years ago

AMD has for several years, the almost free compared to intel prices, 4cored 5350 apu. it serves 4k out of display port ot hdmi. and is very low watt (my htpc runs passively cooled. though not pumping 4k, wich is useless still)

sadly it's mostly ignored by everyone because there's only two relevant motherboards for it.

ChuckMcM2• 10 years ago

Like you, I'm surprised that AMD doesn't have the NUC equivalent. Back when Via invented the "ITX" standard and Intel dismissed it, AMD sold quite a few CPUs in that form factor. Now while "NUC" is an Intel take on small, it could easily be done by AMD (and as you point out possibly better than Intel can). Further if AMD was the system supplier (like Intel is for the NUC) they could get better margins on the chips they sold in those systems.

Its too bad really.

ChuckMcM2• 10 years ago

I'm tempted to replace my NUC5i7RYH with this one. Although Linux support has been spotty and the xfsettingsd bug was quite painful.

That said, something like this with a terabyte of cross-point (aka "Optane") flash in it will no doubt eventually be my working desktop.

jmkni2• 10 years ago

Intel's website is confusing.

This looks cool, I want to buy one, but there's nothing to suggest how much it costs or where to get one.

Someone12342• 10 years ago

$649.99 (+tax/postage). You can buy it on NewEgg, B&H Photo, and Adorama search for NUC6i7KYK. Amazon has a listing but it is for a third party seller who is charging $669 (+$19).

Best of luck :)

jmkni2• 10 years ago

Good to know, thanks!

vegabook• 10 years ago

I use a bunch of NUCs for prototyping cluster development for Cassandra, Celery, and Storm. I believe the economics are much better than doing the same with cloud, because I don't feel that nagging "tick tock" of metered usage. I bought 6 gigabyte BRIX PROs, stuffed them each with 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD, each has 4790 CPUs, and I feel very good about prototyping in my own time on this little cluster, for deployment later. Perfect "training" system.

williesleg• 10 years ago

Yeah pretty slick, but the fans kick in when you're doing heavy workloads, I guess that's better than melting.

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