Intel BOXNUC6CAYH NUC Kit Components

I wanted to wait until after I had this product for a couple of days to get a feel for it, and that time has now elapsed. I will likely re-visit this review in the future, due to some minor expected issues due to it being a new product. For what this system is, it is incredible. This is a complete system (including windows 10 license), with everything you need to get started. And, it is upgradeable, which for most use cases I would highly recommend pursuing. I was quite surprised at how well the system ran with just the included 2GB of ram. When I had the system connected to a 1080P display, I did not have many complaints with the 2GB, however I could tell some things were a bit sluggish than they otherwise should be and memory usage hovered very close to maximum. Switching over to my 4K tv, though, and I REALLY will need more. (I have placed an order for two 4GB sticks to max this system out while getting the speed advantage of dual-channel. You could also go with a single stick of 8GB for a huge boost, you would just be missing out on the interleaving gains). Basically, when using 4K output, especially when attempting to play videos, I was seeing dropped frames any time I did anything as intensive as moving my mouse. When everything except the video was still, the system was fine, using very little processing power despite playing 4K video. And about that 4K video out. This is a bit of a caveat at present, but in another month or two I expect this to have been resolved. If you use Microsoft's Edge browser, you will have no worries. Hardware accelerated VP9 (youtube) and HEVC (everything else 4K) will work just fine. If you use Chrome, however, you will need to do a workaround to force the browser to use hardware acceleration. I am not going to get into the details of how to do this, but know that there has already been a code commit to unrestrict this, it is just a matter of waiting for it to filter into the released version of the browser. (This restriction on VP9 decoding in Chrome had been put in place from the Skylake generation of CPUs, which for a time supported a hybrid GPU/CPU decode for this codec. It turns out it was very buggy, and so Intel recently removed support for it from the driver, but not before Chrome took their own step of blacklisting accelerated VP9 decode on all Intel graphic chipsets.) It is worth noting that even before I took the steps to force-enable the VP9 decoding in chrome, the system was able to mostly handle up to 1080P 60FPS content with very few drops. 4K, however, definitely required the hardware acceleration for smooth playback. Other than the small amount of included RAM, the other obvious limitation on this system is in the included disk, which is actually effectively seen as an internal MMC card. This means serialized writes and relatively poor performance. I have not benchmarked it specifically, but the flashing activity light was very prolonged in its activity while I had it as my primary storage. I was fairly quick to install a SATA SSD in the system and clone the internal storage to it. Since then, disk activity has gone way down and responsiveness has increased. During my install of the SSD, I ran into an issue that surprised me from an Intel system. Specifically, I was unable to get the BIOS to detect an external USB CD drive as a boot device. Routinely when I use a new system, I will boot to a Linux live cd to clone the disk image for backup purposes. I tried two different optical drives, both of which I have recently used successfully in other systems, and in both cases this new NUC could not see them, despite selecting appropriate BIOS options to enable legacy booting. I ended up using a bootable thumb drive to accomplish my disk cloning task, so the USB booting in general clearly DOES work. I would expect this USB CD boot issue to be resolved with a future BIOS update. (The system as I received it included version 0027, but I upgraded it to the latest 0029. I experienced the CD issue with both releases.) I will revisit this review after I upgrade to dual channel 8GB ram, as I expect that will greatly improve things. My only other experience with NUCs is a skylake-generation i3 NUC (NUC6i3SYH). That NUC clearly has a more powerful processor than this one, as evidenced by it software decoding 1080P 60FPS vp9 with lower than 50% processor usage, whereas this one pegs out and drops a few frames attempting to do the same. (As I mentioned earlier in my review, this won't be an issue anymore in the near future as more programs get updated to take advantage of the hardware accelerated decoding, however it does show a limitation regarding other cpu-intensive tasks.) The included wifi module worked perfectly, seeing both my 5ghz and 2.4ghz networks. For remote control, I paired it with a Logitech Wireless Touch Keyboard K400 Plus Again, I went with 5 stars not because this product is perfect, but because the only issues I have currently experienced are perfectly expected for a system at this price point that is brand new to market. Additionally, I expect the issues that it does have will be addressed in the near future. This is also coming from the perspective of intending to use this system as a media center on a 4K television. If I were expecting to use this system for gaming or as a daily driver, I would likely have come to a different conclusion.

I bought this little guy to replace a very old WD TV Live Hub 1TB Media Center (Old Model) that hadn't had firmware upgrades in forever, was extremely slow, had an awful interface and crashed all the time. I could also never get subtitles to work on it. It was pretty amazing in 2012 but times have definitely changed. I was concerned that this little guy (Celeron i3) wouldn't have enough umph to play video off the file server where all our movies are stored but after reading some reviews I decided it should do the trick so I got this along with the Kingston Technology HyperX Impact 8GB Kit 1600MHz DDR3L CL9 SODIMM 1.35V Laptop Memory (PC3 12800) HX316LS9IBK2/8 Black . It arrived a couple days ago. First, I'm extremely impressed with how small this thing actually is when you pull it out of the box. It's very well made and heavy enough with nice rubber feet that keep it from sliding around on the desk. Given how stiff my HDMI cable is that's important. The AC adapter is a wall brick so the only thing going to the NUC is a cable which is pretty long, 6ft? The BIOS lets you play with the lighting on the front for the power button and the LED ring around the USB ports and power button. You can even turn them off which is what I've done. It's ridiculously quiet. Even with the fan profile set to "Cool" you have to be right next to it to hear the fan. Setting it up is super easy. Take the bottom off, pop the ram in, put a hard drive in (I already had a 1TB drive laying around) and put the bottom back on-less than 5 minutes. Then I did a fresh Windows 10 Pro install on it. I guess Linux is an option but I don't know how and don't really want to learn right now. After waiting overnight for Windows 10 updates because my internet is crap I installed Kodi 17.6 Krypton (formerly XMBC) and pointed it at my media share folder. A while later all my movies and TV were scanned and in the library. When I travel with my wife I plan to load movies directly on to the hard drive so we can hook it up to the hotel TV. This machine is not a performance beast like my newly built desktop PC but it's perfect for the intended use. Kodi is snappy once it gets started, navigation is quick and playback starts immediately even reading the files from the media server over Wireless-N. I've tested 1080p content and it plays fine, no stuttering or other issues. And subtitles work! No more burning them in with Handbrake. The built-in IR receiver works great with my Logitech Harmony 650 remote and with some tweaking I've got all the major functions on the remote now. Any time I need a keyboard I have a bluetooth one ready. I paid $150 for the WD media player in 2012. I wish these had existed then because for not much more money I've put together a much more capable box that allows more customization and can run Firefox and other Windows (or Linux) apps. I'm very happy with this item and my wife loves being able to actually play a movie without having to futz with the antique, slow interface on the WD media player. As a media player/streaming device I can highly recommend this computer.

When it worked, it met my expectations. The most demanding thing I needed it to do was stream HD web content. It did that fine., even with only two gig of ram. Up until it failed, my only beef was that 32gig is not enough to accomplish a windows 10 update. I threw in a spare 100 gig hd, cloned the OS to it and did the update. Once I finished that and got rid of everything I would have needed to revert back to the old version, the OS could fit back on the original HD. When I cloned the OS back to the original drive, it never powered up again. It took ten days to get a refund. By then, it had gone up in price by $24. I decided to buy a different brand with the Celeron J4105 processor, which supports 4k video @ 60fps, twice the storage and 4 gig of DDR4 ram. With the $20 off coupon, it only cost $210. I turns out the failure of the Intel unit was a blessing in disguise.

What it is: I needed a small form factor computer for amateur radio use and this system is perfect for me, It is silent, only needs a 6 inch by 6 inch footprint, uses a solid state drive and it came with enough RAM (8Gb), to run all of my radio software and it has WiFi and Bluetooth - but no optical drive. It has enough USB ports to add external devices and with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse you have a very portable system. I use an HDMI 32 inch display which lets me run half a dozen apps on the screen simultaneously or I can easily switch from one to another and monitor several on one screen without having to toggle them - just click on the frame of the screen you want to work. Other features include a laptop style power supply, (but no batteries that wear out and need replacement after they pass their charging cycles threshold like laptops), enough USB 3.0 ports to meet your needs for external devices, a fast SSD, plenty of RAM but not upgradeable in this particular model, preloaded with Windows 10 Pro - not the home version. I have two four port USB 3.0 hubs plugged into it so I can have 8 external devices connected to it and that is a lot of flash memory capability as well as an avenue to add external disk drives and DVD/BluRay drives. This can become a very serious amount of storage that is readily accessible. Need to go somewhere and set up your system? Put it all in a briefcase (except for the display) and off you go with it, simple, lightweight and portable. What it isn't: It isn't a screaming fast gamer's system but there are more powerful NUC platforms available, and as you get more powerful versions there will be some fan noise as these systems all have internal cooling fans - which means eventually it will suck in dust and then it will not be as quiet or run as cool, so the more powerful varieties will need occasional cleaning. Basically even considering the CPU is a middleweight it does a remarkable level of tasks and it does them well. There are more powerful NUC systems from Intel for sale if you need an ultra powerful system however in this case less is more and it does serve the average user's needs very well. Intel did their homework on this one and I have found it to be all I need without going overboard. One reason I think this system is so capable is the small size of the system board - it is a tiny board compared to a laptop or conventional desktop system which has an advantage in that all the components have short paths between them - the smaller the distance the quicker it is covered. Miniaturization at this level means you get the performance of a machine with many times more RAM and a faster clock speed and greater bus capacity in a machine you can put virtually anywhere. Unless you are working on projects that require some extreme level of computing cycles per second , and most of us do not require that level of performance, the NUC6 is a great compact solution, and it is the basic starting point in a family of compact systems that can be 4 times faster, have a more capable CPU offerings, and have many times more storage and RAM in a very minimal space requirement. There are NUC systems that range from the NUC5 to the latest and most powerful NUC10 so there is a range of capability and expense for every need and budget. I worked on computer systems that range from mainframe to midrange, from mini to the earliest PC platforms and have serviced every platform on warranty in the hands of business and individual consumers going back to 1978 and this little NUC platform is one of the most impressive I have ever seen when it comes to value and performance with a minimal volume of space. It even comes with a bracket for mounting it on the back of a display if you want an all-in-one type of system. This is truly the Next Unit of Computing in my opinion.

I have the NUC7i5BNK model (i5 Slim Unit) and love it. I purchased one of these for my office, or for an IT client who wants a nice, basic computer. Let me start by saying it pains me to take a star away, as I try to be very fair with reviews; however there are three major flaws I feel are critical to the success of this unit. I hate to start negative, but if you keep in mind these two tips and one "trick", you will have a very capable & complete Windows 4K machine for under $300. If you do these 3 things, I would undoubtedly recommend the unit. Without it, I would not. 1.) It pains me Intel keeps shipping anemic 2GB. With all the windows updates and power hungry windows default programs, 2GB is painfully slow. I HIGHLY recommend upgrading. I understand the price is low, but this unit requires (yes not recommend) REQUIRES this to play 1080p or 4K. To call this "4K Capable" or "Multimedia Ready" out of the box is simply inaccurate for 4K let alone 1080p playback. Again, the price is great, but I would rather see Intel make this $249 (or even $279) instead of $224 and include an extra 2GB of basic memory if they want to tout this as "4K ready". If you are solely playing 1080p, you may be able to get by, but man do I feel bad for how long you will be waiting all the time. 2.) The also anemic 32GB of storage. Now I understand this is so cheap, and I would be completely fine with this IF, windows update didn't require more space to update itself. This was a fresh system I updated with windows update, I even deleted default programs like OneDrive to see if I could update. It updated all the way until the creators update, and I received 3 consecutive errors for "not enough disk space" even after windows update "cleared me" for the creators update with 8GB of free space. And yes, I tried to clean up more space by doing disk cleanup multiple times, but it wasn't enough and no avail. You MUST get an SSD (I say a cheap one for $50-adata makes a perfectly capable 120GB model). After this, disk activity is WAY down and it is super snappy for a celeron processor. 3.) If you play 4k, you MUST go to the graphics properties application (right click on desktop and click "Intel Graphics Settings"). Then go into Power, and change "plugged in" option to "maximum performance". This is the only way I saw 4K play flawlessly, and beautifully. This should be enabled by default for the plugged in setting. Getting all cons out of the way, which are important if you buy this unit, it is an excellent machine for the price. ________________________________________________________________ PROS -Great value (once you add extra 2GB memory and SSD upgrade) you will be under $300 for a full fledged windows 4K machine. -Snappy for general use. Even multiple browsers run quickly. However, keep in mind its still a celeron, cannot do too much multitasking. My i5 Model is faster, but not monumentally so in everyday internet browsing with a few tabs open. Kudos to this little celeron unit. -4K plays beautifully without dropped frames on chrome, just make sure you eliminate or watch the background programs (like iTunes, chrome, etc). -Small footprint like all other NUC's -Extremely quiet. heard a slight murmur on initial setup when it was at 100% constantly. TIP: change BIOS mode to quiet, you won't hear the fan -Can be fanless when not in use, or under very light load. -LED ring and area is a nice touch. -VGA port! So nice for old displays, where this device will most likely be used at, in budget environments with older monitors/display units. _________________________________________________________________ Conclusion: I hate to knock a star off, but without these recommendations, you aren't in my opinion, getting a good value. I would rather someone buy a $100 computer box (like beelink) or the MINIX Z83-4 unit off here for the near same performance, but almost half the cost. But with those small upgrades, you have a powerful, affordable, tiny NUC capable of 4K playback, that doubles the performance (and then some) of the other units listed. Feel free to ask any questions below!

Bought this to run as a macro machine, installed two 4GB RAM sticks (be careful to choose a compatible memory, other comments for this product lead me in the right direction after I almost purchased a cheaper DDR3 RAM that would have been incompatible), and a 250GB samsung SSD. Works like a charm, and especially for the price. Not the fastest or most powerful, I find I am running at a constant %100 CPU usage with 5 Firefox tabs open and a macro program running. But it has yet to crash and I've been running it 24/7. Recommend getting a cheap external USB fan if you're planning to run it hard like I am, it does heat up pretty quick and the internal fan isn't cutting it. Installing components and OS was a cinch, although it was slightly picky about loading Windows from an external hard drive. Tried a couple drives which wouldn't appear in the BIOS, eventually I loaded the bootable windows onto a USB flash drive and then it worked. I would recommend using a flashdrive to boot the OS for the first time to avoid this. A bit heavier than I expected, not quite a "portable" PC on the level of the slimmer micro-PCs or PC sticks. Good product overall, I would recommend.

The NUC6CAYS kit came with Windows 10 Home 1607, and 2GB Ram, 32GB HDD, no 2.5" Drive. First upgraded it to 8GB ram, no problem. Booted up no problem, shortly it discovered for itself that Windows 10 Home 1709 was available and started upgrade itself. That was okay, but it took a LONG time over wireless internet. Then it FAILED. Mysterious error messages: "something went wrong". After many failed attempts and much searching online for help/answers it turned out the problem was "simple" 0xc190020e error code meant it was out of space to complete the upgrade. Installed the 2.5" SSD intended for that in the first place. This required moving the boot drive/windows partition to the new SSD (use free disk drive management software from online, and windows disk manager) and adjusting the "BIOS" (or whatever it's called now) to boot from the SSD, not the minuscule 32GB Kingston drive that shipped with the kit. Then the upgrade went fine, again it took a LONG time. Things look okay now, most ports have been used ok, and display works with some oddness here and there... but it's a TV not a monitor, so there's that. Celeron may prove to be inadequate in the near term though... time will tell, but it doesn't seem it will be up to the job based on how things went getting to here. Nice small box though, packed with features, will find some use for it.

This is probably the best sub $200 barebones unit out there right now. And it comes direct from Intel and not an overseas manufacturer that you may never get support from. I do recommend going with the barebones kit vs. the preassembled one. The reason is that Intel only installs a single RAM module on the preconfigured model that hinders its graphical performance and doesn't showcase the improvements made with the new Apollo Lake architecture inside.Yes you'll need to buy your own RAM, storage, and OS license but it's a great way to learn how to put a PC of your own together. The NUC is not fanless but I rarely heard it. The fan is among the quietest I've seen in a small PC like this. I was surprised by its gaming performance, delivering 30 fps in Counterstrike GO with settings turned way down at 1080p. Emulators for modern systems also worked better than expected. All in there's definitely some innovation still happening with PCs at the low end of the market. The Apollo Lake chip in the NUC6CAYS is a good improvement over last year's generation.

Hace mas de un añito que compre esta maravilla de aparato y paso a contar mi experiencia con el. Voy a dividir la reseña en diferentes partes para que todo quede bien claro. He de decir que soy una persona a la que le encanta la informatica y un maniatico de que mis ordenadores vayan como la seda ,pero que nunca habia montado ningun ordenador ,hasta ahora,me decidi por comprarlo y montarlo y la verdad es que no se puede estar mas contento con la compra. -Primera parte: Voy a explicar un poco a a la gente que es este aparato y para que sirve ya que muchos amigos mios que me lo han visto y no tenian claro que es, y a mucha gente le pasara lo mismo, pues este aparato es igual que un ordenador de sobremesa pero muchisimo mas pequeño y muchisimo mas versatil, lo puedes usar como un ordenador normal como cualquier otro conectado a su pantalla de pc, lo puedes usar como sistema multimedia conectado a la tele del salon,ademas se puede colocar justo en la parte de atras de la tele sujeto a ella y usarlo como una smart tv pero infinitamente mejor, y para finalizar lo puedes usar como un portatil mas o menos ya que es tan pequeño ,que te lo puedes llevar y conectarlo donde quieras,que es lo que yo hago, ademas al ser tan pequeño lo puedes meter como lo tengo yo en el mueble de la sala,conectado a la tele y a todo en general y de paso no rompes la estetica del salon con un aparato mas. Aclarado lo que es este aparato decir tambien que al comprarlo viene vacio y tienes que montar tu los componentes que prefieras,para mi eso tambien es una ventaja muy grande ya que cada uno se lo monta dependiendo de sus necesidades y gastandote mas o menos dinero, un 10 en este aspecto. -2ª Parte es comolo uso yo: Pues decir que yo lo uso como centro multimedia en el salon,lo tengo conectado a la tele de la sala y veo peliculas,series o simplemente navego desde el sofa y tambien lo tengo conectado a mi equipo de musica mediante un DAC y desde el sofa pongo la musica que quiero, una autentica maravilla,lo uso con un teclado inhalambrico que a su vez hace de raton que es otra gozada, y para todo esto lo uso yo. -3ª Parte la instalacion: Empiezo por los componentes, yo compre un disco duro Kingston SSD A400 - Disco duro sólido, 2.5", SATA 3, 120 GB y una memoria ram de 8 gigas de crucial, a la hora de montarlo es relativamente facil y yo sin tener practica segui un tutorial en youtube y listo todo a la primera, eso si con un poco de paciencia. El ssd va como la seda y la memoria de 8gigas de crucial pes una garantia total de perfecto funcionamiento,recomiendo comprar unas memorias ram de un buen fabricante y no cualquier cosa, ya que no te van a dar ningun problema de nada ,siguiendo con las memorias para este ordenador en concreto la memoria tiene que tener esta especificacion ( 204-pin SO-DIMM, DDR3L 1.35 voltios ),comprarlas asi y no tendreis problema alguno,Tambien decir que el ordenador viene con 2 ranuras para las memorias y tu lo convinas como quieres , yo por ejemplo solo compre una de 8 gigas y si quiero en el futuro le meto otra de 8, pero puedes metele 4y 4 tambien,cuestion de gustos. -4ª parte Instalacion windows: En el tema de sofware decir que no he tenido el mas minimo problema de verdad, instalar windows 10 es facil, busca algun tutorial ,paciencia y ya esta.Un vez funciona ya el ordenador lo primero que recomiendo hacer es bajar los drivers de la pagina de intel y actualizar tu ordenador para que no tengas problema alguno . Y como dato y para que elordenador fluya de lujo y te dure mcho yolo que tengo hecho es instalar en el ssd solo windows, osea que no hago descargas de musica ni de pelis ni nada en el ssd ,y asi aumento y mucho su durabilidad y rendimiento, las decargas cuando las hago, las descargo a un disco duro externo y ya esta,mas acil y comodo. -5ª Parte Lo que mas me gusta de el: Pues que es una autentica pasada lo rapido que va,arranca windows en nada,y lo cierra mas rapido todavia,abre los programas super rapido,en resumen que es una maravilla. Yo las pelis me las descargo muy pesadas, de mas de 20 gigas y las mueve sin despeinarse,una gozada. 6ª Parte Lo que menos me gusta: Pues que no puede con las pelis de 4K, su procesador y su grafica integrada no pueden con estas pelis, una pena, pero en mi caso me da igual ya que mi tele no es 4K . Y lo que menos me gusta de esta maravilla es que no se porque motivo los ratones y teclados inhalambricos si los conectas directamente a sus entradas usb tienen cortes de señal y no funcionan bien,se atascan y es desesperante, pero tiene una facil solucion,yo tengo conectado un Hub usb 3.0 al ordenador y y en ese hub conecto el transmisor de mi teclado o del raton problema resuelto,todo sin cortes y como la seda, la solucion es no conectar directamente los transmisores al ordenador,se tienen que conectar a un hub o a algun cable alargador usb para que no haga interferencias. En resumen si lo que quieres es un buenisimo ordenador para uso normal,navegar ver pelis, descargas y demas no lo dudes este pequeñin es una autentica maravilla, y una relacion calidad precio genial.

But it works with another supply I had from another NUC. Please provide a replacement part to get this comment removed.

ベアボーン版には、メモリとSSD、WindowsOSが入っていない。 「あわせて購入」の項目にあるメモリ8GとSSD240Gを追加し、合計27000円ほどで購入。 組み立ては簡単で、プラスドライバーで裏蓋を開けて、メモリとSSDを差し込むだけ。 最後にあらかじめ持っていたWindowsOSをインストールして完成。 CPUは値段の割にはまあまあな Intel Celeron J3455。メモリ8G、SSD240G。静音、省電力、省スペース。日常で使うPCとしては不満なし。 コストパフォーマンスがいいのにIntelのメーカー品で、中華の謎メーカーのようなギャンブル性もなく、安心して買えたのも良かった。

Preso per farci un media center collegato a tv e impianto home theater, che dire, ottimo ma fa molto di più. Ho montato 2 banchi di ddr3l da 4GB ciascuno della qumox e -al momento- un hdd da 1TB vecchiotto, aperto il NUC togliendo le 4 viti, si alza il "caddy hd", si mette la ram, si infila l'hd che si blocca ad incastro, si richiude ed è pronto, tempo 30 secondi senza nemmeno guardare le istruzioni. Installato win10pro da chiavetta, tutto perfetto, risultavano mancanti solo dei drive aggiornati del bios e della grafica intel, subito aggiornati con la comoda applicazione intel che controlla se ci sono aggiornamenti più recenti. (basta andare sul sito intel) Al momento il sistema è ottimo, perfettamente stabile, unico problema il collo di bottiglia dato dall'hdd che sostituirò quanto prima o con un ssd o con un ibrido tipo il firecuda seagate. Che aggiungere, comodissimo che quando lo accendi accenda anche la tv ad esso collegata, il bios è veramente completo e si può gestire tutto fin troppo, dai led frontali, all'accensione, al tipo di sospensione, a come vuoi che funzioni la ventolina... I video con kodi si vedono e sentono benissimo, l'audio multicanale è gestito perfettamente. Credo che 4GB di ram siano più che sufficienti per qualsiasi cosa ma consiglio un hd recente e veloce o meglio un ssd. Le dimensioni sono veramente contenute anche se il peso è di 700g, segno che il case -anche se esternamente di plastica- è veramente robusto. Esteticamente molto bello da renderlo elegante ovunque. Una delle cose migliori però rimane il fatto che sia un intel, sul sito trovi drive e aggiornamenti per ogni suo componente e credo che il supporto fornito non abbia paragoni visti i loro volumi, qualsiasi problema lo risolvono e aggiornano i drive con costanza. Per i consumi sono di soli 10-11W nell'uso normale che salgono a 13W quando la cpu è molto impegnata, bassissimi, nessun pc nemmeno si avvicina a un tale valore. Spero vi sia stata utile la mia recensione ;)

Awesome little mini computer. Construction is solid, and anyone knowing how to put ram into a laptop, connect a sata disc drive, and install an operating system can put this together. It's easy. It has a regular HDMI connector (no adapter needed), a VGA video connector, 2 USB3 and 2 USB2 ports in addition to the SD card reader. It is inaudible when running. Although it states it can only support a max of 8gb of ram, I have 12gb installed and recognized and running. I also have two monitors (a regular 24" as well as a Huion pen monitor) operating on it. I use it for video-conferencing on a regular basis, and it works great. i updated the 0064 bios using the F7 bios recovery version to the latest 0066 from the manufacturer's website. The process was simple. I'm running it with a Linux operating system, and it works great. I'm loving this little quad core box. It's quiet, compact, and fast enough for me.