Ubuntu MATE 15.04 on a NUC5i5RYK

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Well, here it is. My new NUC mini-PC ( NUC5i5RYK ) is on it's maiden voyage, with our beta OS of choice.

It's outfitted with a Crucial 250GB M.2 SSD and 16GB of Ballistix 1866Mhz RAM. The "build" was stupid simple and it's now at home VESA mounted to the back of a 23" Acer monitor.

Mostly I've just been syncing my data back from remote storage and throwing stuff at it to see if it was stable. So far so good. It's super quiet even under decent load and VERY fast and smooth at the desktop.

Gaming performance seems to be about what you'd expect for a collection of ultrabook parts kitted out with gobs of RAM and a mid-range SSD... mostly older titles and a select few new ones.

Tomorrow I will put it through the paces with some transcoding and video editing, just to see how it handles prolonged CPU loads.

Pics and videos below:

Boot Time

Desktop Performance

Shadowrun Returns Performance

Tinymite, the NUC.

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Innards installed. Damned SSD is smaller than one of the RAM modules 0.o

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VESA mount!

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My converted coat closet that necessitates I be size concious about my toys :smile:

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Dual core with hyperthreading.

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Thanks for sharing, I watched the gaming action too :slight_smile:

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@electragician Is this the new broadwell NUC? I really liked the idea of using the closet as a desk :smiley:

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It is, it’s the i5 version.

Thanks! My wife was giving me the stink eye over cluttering up our small home, so it was either the closet or outside :smiley:

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Good stuffs!

Now I have the GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) for one of those Mini-PC’s!

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