Standing screen display size | 3 |
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Processor | 2.1 GHz celeron |
Hard Drive | 3 HDD |
Graphics Coprocessor | Intel Integrated Graphics |
Chipset Brand | Intel |
Card Description | Integrated |
Wireless Type | 802.11ac |
Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 2 |
Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 4 |
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Intel BOXNUC5CPYH NUC PC Celeron N3050
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Specific Uses For Product | business, personal |
Brand | Intel |
Personal computer design type | Mini PC |
Operating System | Windows 8.1 |
Screen Size | 3 |
Model Name | BOXNUC5CPYH |
Included Components | NUC Kit, VESA mount bracket, Power adapter, Multi-country AC plugs |
CPU Model | Celeron |
Color | Black |
Special Feature | Microphone |
About this item
- Intel Braswell Celeron processor (N3050)
- Intel HD Graphics; Memory Types: DDR3L-1333/1600 1.35V SO-DIMM
- Headphone/Microphone jack on the front panel. DC Input Voltage Supported : 12-19 VDC
- 2 x USB 3.0 ports on back panel & 2 x USB 3.0 ports on front panel Internal SATA3 support for 2.5" HDD/SSD.Silver with Black Top
- Board form factor:UCFF (4" x 4")
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How do you use your Intel NUC?
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Multiple HD Displays: Because one HD screen is never enough. Rapid Start: Less Waiting. More Gaming. Multiple Ports: Room for the peripherals so you can drive like you do in real life. |
Supports 4K Display: For immersive visuals. Smaller Than a DVR: Or your grandma’s VCR. Built-In WIFI: So you can stream all the Netflix* you want. |
Vesa Mount: DIY your own All in One with a single screwdriver. Bluetooth: Hook up your Bluetooth speakers and go all retro boombox cool. Storage: Up to 2 TB of storage for all the pictures of kittens and tacos that you take. |
Game On Your TV From Your PC
Intel NUC allows gamers to bring their mainstream gaming experience into the living room. With its ample graphics performance, the Intel NUC can power your mainstream, casual, and indie game catalogues from the couch. What once was an experience only to be had on the small screen of your desktop or laptop can now be realized and shared on the full-size high definition display located in a common area of your home.
Home Entertainment
Intel NUC gives you the power you need to play, entertain, and inspire. Get the powerful capabilities of a complete desktop system packaged into four small inches, including built-in WiFi, Bluetooth*, and mini HDMI*. Experience eye-popping visuals and immersive 7.1 surround sound, all in a stylish Mini PC that can easily fit into any room.
Shrink Your Desktop
Shrink your desktop with the Intel NUC, featuring Intel Anti-Theft Technology and support for Vesa-mount brackets. From school and university computer labs to government and nonprofit organizations, the thin, Intel NUC form factor is perfect for small spaces.
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operating system | Windows 8.1 | Windows 11 Pro Supports Win10, Linux, Ubuntu | OS | OS | OS | OS |
display type | LCD | — | 4K UHD | 4K UHD | 4K UHD | — |
hard disk size | — | 256 GB | 256 GB | 500 GB | 500 GB | 500 GB |
cpu family | celeron | Intel Mobile CPU | celeron | celeron | celeron | intel processor n100 |
cpu speed | 2.1 GHz | 3.4 GHz | 2.9 GHz | 3.4 GHz | 3.4 GHz | 3.4 GHz |
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Brand | Intel |
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Series | BOXNUC5CPYH |
Item model number | BOXNUC5CPYH |
Hardware Platform | PC |
Operating System | Windows 8.1 |
Item Weight | 1.8 pounds |
Product Dimensions | 4.5 x 2 x 4.5 inches |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 4.5 x 2 x 4.5 inches |
Color | Black |
Processor Brand | Intel |
Number of Processors | 1 |
Computer Memory Type | SDRAM |
Hard Drive Interface | USB 3.0 |
Hard Drive Rotational Speed | 3 |
Voltage | 1.35 Volts |
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ASIN | B00XPVRR5M |
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3.9 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #79 in Desktop Barebones |
Date First Available | May 25, 2015 |
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The NUC5CPYH Mini PC NUC Kit from Intel is a do-it-yourself barebones kit that starts with a dual-core 1.6 GHz Intel Celeron processor that can achieve up to 2.16 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost. It has one vacant SODIMM slot that can accept up to 8GB of DDR3L 1333/1600 MHz of RAM. For storage, the Mini PC can hold a SATA III 2.5" hard drive or SSD. The NUC5CPYH features an HDMI and a VGA port for video output to a monitor or TV (sold separately). For Internet connectivity, it also has 802.11ac Wi-Fi and a Gigabit Ethernet jack. For additional connectivity this system has Bluetooth 4.0 for peripherals and other external devices.
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Customers like the value of the computer. They say it's great for the price, an investment, and has a lot of options and price points. Customers also mention that it'll make a great HTPC.
"...The performance and build quality at this price point is shockingly awesome...." Read more
"...* Indepensive. This is literally the least expensive general purpose x86 system I've ever seen...." Read more
"Right now, this is a *very* new device. The bang for the buck is pretty amazing...." Read more
"I think this is very good for the money if one does not expect too much...." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the fit of the computer. They mention that it is a decent very small form factor computer, that fits the bill perfectly, and that it has a small footprint. Some say that it sits on a shelf and that they can remote desktop into it. Overall, most are happy with the quality and size of the product.
"...Very compact. I could probably fit 20 of these in about the same space as a regular ATX tower case.* Quiet...." Read more
"...It's small, inobtrusive, and very quiet. As the software matures, setup and configuration will only get easier...." Read more
"...I am a pretty technical guy and found out that Intel released these tiny, cheap, and POWERFUL little barebone PCs called NUC...." Read more
"...So my conclusion -- a first-rate tiny computer." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the efficiency of the computer. They mention that it is an extremely energy efficient system, with low power consumption. Some say that the computer has plenty of power and no fan. The CPU power is good for web browsing and there is not a lot of OS overhead.
"...Pros:* Extremely energy efficient, average usage when the cluster is idle is less than 5W, and it rarely goes over 10 even when I'm heavily..." Read more
"...8gb ram and a 160gb SSD (older intel ~250MB/s) The CPU power is good for web browsing, what what not...." Read more
"...manually edit my fstab entry, but once configured, it works great, sips power (I'm using 6 watts) and just plain works...." Read more
"...2.5 HD enclosure (given the small size of the case), and the low power consumption, however I am taking a 1 star away for the average consumer..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the performance of the computer. Some mention that it meets their modest expectations, does the job well, and runs smoothly. However, others say that it is not super fast, takes forever to load the video driver, and has limited processing power. It took some time to get onedrive downloaded and the Macafee security software took several hours.
"...It's also powerful enough to make a nice little standalone server. Drop in a 4 or 8 GB ram stick and a 2.5" ssd. This gizmo is quite responsive...." Read more
"...Firefox runs like hot garbage at this point - it may be an artifact of the GPU support issues in the 3.x kernel, but I'm not sure and don't really..." Read more
"...As for my this NUC, I modded it to be quite. Its working beautifully now hooked to my TV for whatever moments I need a PC up there, not much anymore..." Read more
"...disk so had to manually edit my fstab entry, but once configured, it works great, sips power (I'm using 6 watts) and just plain works...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the quality of the computer. Some mention it's first-rate, easy to set up and use, and a good little system. However, others say that the CPU is a bit underpowered and at times struggles while doing basic tasks.
"Thi unit is "OK". Its a nice little basic computers...." Read more
"...Booted it up and got a blank screen with no response to the keyboard...." Read more
"Excellent Linux Box. Had a minor issue setting up Ubuntu 16.04. I used a USB 2.0 flash drive to boot/insall Ubuntu without issue...." Read more
"...This device is first-rate -- it was easy to set up and is easy to use...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the video quality of the computer. Some mention that it runs fine on YouTube 4K videos at 1080p, while others say that it struggles to play 1080 videos and is severely underpowered at 1020p. It's 4K capable, but it's not good at streaming 4K movies.
"...At this time Steam streaming is definitely affected by the GPU issues - the stream will work, but video decoding is hosed...." Read more
"...projector (BENQ W1070) will display 3d and this unit has no problem outputting a 3d image...." Read more
"...UPDATEThe BIOS on this PC seem to be very poorly done. I had it set it up for UEFI booting, so I switched off the Legacy boot option...." Read more
"...1. all device manager drivers seems installed ok.2. hdmi 1920 resolution is bad - driver seems to simply not work (10.18.14.4234), the display..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the ease of setup. Some mention it's super easy to set up, install the SSD and memory, and use the computer. The document is easy as pie to follow, and the firmware configuration interface is very well designed. However, others say that it'd be very hard to install the OS on the system, have some issue while installing the application, and not be able to install any OS on this device.
"...with this, and if you don't mind a little tinkering, it's trivial to get Ubuntu (or OpenELEC or you distro of choice I'd assume) up and running." Read more
"...I subtracted 1 star because I was not able to install windows 7 at least out of the box...." Read more
"...I downloaded the firmware from Intel, and installing it was easy (once I finally got into the BIOS, see below)...." Read more
"...me, this is just icing on the cake, but the firmware configuration interface is very well designed and easy to use.* Good Linux support...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the noise of the computer. Some mention it's very quiet, while others say that the fan cycles on too much and proves annoyingly loud. Some say that it'll sound teeny but is always on and whiny.
"...All in all this little guy is fantastic. It's almost completely silent, and looks attractive - or can easily be hidden pretty much anywhere you want..." Read more
"...Quiet...." Read more
"...Edit: Ended up getting a MacMini (2012, i7 Quad) for my home server. Very quiet, very fast (Ivy Bridge i7), very power efficient...." Read more
"...My biggest gripe is its fan, which sounds teeny but is always on and whiny...." Read more
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Note that out of the box this had BIOS rev. 27 installed, this was updated to rev. 31 before the OS install.
Ubuntu 15.04 installed easily via USB and runs with no issues. Note that until 15.10 is available with the 4.x kernel (I believe late October), the Cherrytrail GPU support has some issues, but no obvious showstoppers except for Steam (more below). My media storage is a headless Windows box with a RAID setup and a MySQL database to sync multiple Kodi clients. Everything went perfectly with Kodi and it performs wonderfully playing remote 1080p HD. This was my main concern and I couldn't be happier with it.
Firefox runs like hot garbage at this point - it may be an artifact of the GPU support issues in the 3.x kernel, but I'm not sure and don't really care, because right now not play back Amazon Instant Video in HTML5 and requires using a 3rd part repository to get Flash playback working - which runs like crap anyway. Installed the latest stable Chrome (not Chromium) which runs like a champ and plays Amazon in HTML5 with no issues.
Steam install took a little doing, but this is a Linux thing and nothing specific to this machine. At this time Steam streaming is definitely affected by the GPU issues - the stream will work, but video decoding is hosed. I installed FTL locally and that runs fantastic however. I hope the GPU fixes in the new kernel will get the streaming working. This was a "nice to have" item and not a dealbreaker.
All in all this little guy is fantastic. It's almost completely silent, and looks attractive - or can easily be hidden pretty much anywhere you want. The performance and build quality at this price point is shockingly awesome. I'd expect with Windows 10 I wouldn't have run into the few minor issues that I did. I'm an instant believer in the NUC after this - we had intended to give a rebuilt Ivy Bridge desktop as a Christmas gift for the SO's mom, but now I will absolutely be going with a new i3 NUC instead.
If you are looking for a more robust HTPC solution than a Roku/AppleTV/etc., you cannot go wrong with this, and if you don't mind a little tinkering, it's trivial to get Ubuntu (or OpenELEC or you distro of choice I'd assume) up and running.
First off, this model of NUC has the latest Intel wireless chips (as of Dec. 2015). These are supported in the 4.x kernel, but won't work in any distro with a 3.x kernel. I tried two flavors of Ubuntu 15.10, and the latest Fedora. The built-in Wi-Fi, Blue-tooth and USB 3.0 all work out of the box.
It is recommended that you update to the latest BIOS. I downloaded the firmware from Intel, and installing it was easy (once I finally got into the BIOS, see below).
Getting into the BIOS was the first hurdle. I have an older HD TV that doesn't have an "over-scan" adjustment (which means that the top and bottom edges get cut off). So I hooked it up with a VGA cable. Booted it up and got a blank screen with no response to the keyboard. Did some Googling and found the NUC BIOS won't work without the correct hardware. It needs to have a compatible video, keyboard and mouse, or it won't even boot.
I switched to a HDMI cable, and it booted right up. So if you don't see a splash-screen saying "Intel NUC", then doesn't it like your hardware. I've read that the USB 3.0 ports mess with some wireless keyboards, but my Logitech K400 works fine.
The standard BIOS defaults seem to work fine with Linux. I looked, but didn't even see any options for turning off "Fast Boot" or "Secure Boot". So unless you have a specific reason, I would just accept the factory defaults and leave the BIOS alone.
I first tried booting from a Linux DVD and pretty much everything worked. The top and bottom edges of the desktop didn't show on the screen. But I kept clicking past the edge of the screen till I found the Menu button. Set the video resolution one step down and now I have full screen. Didn't get sound through the HDMI cable, but I think there may be a system setting to fix that.
After I updated the BIOS, the NUC would no longer boot off the DVD. It would start to load Linux, then just hang up halfway through. I hit F10 during startup, and found the BIOS now showed two different options for booting the DVD in either Legacy mode or EFI mode. Tried EFI mode and it booted right up. So, depending on your boot media, you have to try both modes to see which one works.
Installing Linux onto a blank hard drive requires creating an EFI boot partition (which has to be FAT32). I suspect that if I had just told the installer to use the entire hard drive, it would have figured everything out by itself.
But I wanted room to install a second Linux distro, or maybe even Windows someday. So I manually partitioned the hard drive to leave some empty space. This took a couple of tries to get the boot loader in the right place. I tried telling the installer to put the boot files in the boot partition, but that didn't work. The next time I just told it to put the boot loader on the hard drive, and the installer put it where the BIOS could find it.
Modern Linux distros can use EFI booting. But different distros use slightly different installers, and there is no standard look or labeling. If possible, just let the installer do all the work. If you're doing it manually, don't be surprised if it takes you a couple of tries to get it to boot properly.
UPDATE
The BIOS on this PC seem to be very poorly done. I had it set it up for UEFI booting, so I switched off the Legacy boot option. That somehow killed the F2 option to get into the BIOS settings. I had it set up to boot into Linux just fine, then after a few times it started giving me a blank screen on bootup. Sometimes the Linux Recovery Mode will fix it, sometimes not. I've been building PCs and installing Linux for 15 years, and never had a PC give me this much trouble. The hardware itself seems to run fine. But right now I never know from one time to the next whether it will boot up or not.
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solo debo especificar que el modelo que yo compre venia sin RAM ni disco duro, el empaque excelente y su funcionamiento muy bueno
yo al uso como emulador retro y centro multimedia y funciona de maravilla muy recomendable.
BIOS設定画面が無駄に高解像度なせいで、小さなモニター繋いで表示されなくて焦りました。
取説の類いが何もありませんが、部品の欠品やコネクタ破損などはなく、まだまだ現役で使います。
同じものを過去に使ったことがあれば普通に使えます。
Sistemas operativos: Windows 10 Home 64 bits y Linux Mint Mate 18.3, 64 bits, en dual boot. Es para un famiiiar que lo quiere utilizar, esencialmente, como multimedia center.
En Windows 10, le instalamos Microsoft Office. Linux Mint ya viene con Libre Office, etc...
FIRMWARE: en Modo UEFI, con secure boot desactivado para facilitar la instalacion dual boot con Linux Mint.
Disco particionado en GPT.
El FIRMWARE (antiguamente Bios), permite seleccionar el sistema operativo que quieres instalar: Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Linux, etc. Acivé la configuración Windows 10. Por qué? Porque si optamos por Linux, en el administrador de dispositivos de Windows 10 nos aparecerá un punto de exclamación en los drivers de 3 dispositivos. Linux funciona igual de bien con esta configuración y nos ahorramos dolores de cabeza con los drivers de Windows 10.
A uno de los puertos USB 3 traseros, le hemos conectado una dock Tacens 5PORTUMDUO2 con 2 discos duros de 3.5", para almacenar películas, vídeos, fotos etc.
Va conectado al router con un cable de red y a la TV mediante un cable hdmi.
Sonido compatible DTS y resolución 4K a 30 fps.
Lleva WiFi 2.4 Ghz y 5G.
Como servidor de red, en Linux Mint instalamos el Samba Server y System-conf-samba a partir de los repositorios oficiales, con el administrador de software que viene ya con el sistema operativo y así poder compartir el contenido de los discos USB con los diferentes dispositivos de la casa (PC, Iphone, smartphones, tablet, TV, etc).
Otro software instalado: Kodi 17.6, tanto en Windows 10 como en Linux.
INICIO: en Windows 10, 32 segundos todo cargado. En Linux Mint Mate, 18 segundos.
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CONCLUSION:
Me parece un excelente producto por su relación calidad precio. Lleva funcionando una semana y no se calienta y es perfectamente silencioso.
Es más pequeño de lo que parece en las fotos. Caja de aluminio con ventilaciones laterales. Un producto con la calidad Intel.
Si es para utilizar como Media Center o NAS, es ampliamente suficiente. Y diría también, ocasionalmente, para algunas tareas de ofimática (Word, Excel...) y no es necesario gastarse más dinero.
Si es para trabajos más exigentes y una mayor fluidez, personalmente optaría por el Intel BOXNUC7I3BNH.
Es difícil ponerle algún pero dado su relación calidad precio.
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I purchased the Crucial 4GB memory module ( CT51264BF160B ) and a Kingston 120GB SSD ( SV300S37A/120G ) to go along with it. The memory is not on the Intel-certified list for this device, though the same memory in a different internal configuration is (the CT51264BF160BJ, with the "J" at the end), but it works fine. The SSD is major overkill for my needs, but it's fast and inexpensive; if I'd realized that the machine could run on an SD card, I might have skipped an internal hard drive entirely, though it would only have saved a few dollars. Both of them slotted in with no problem.
It had a VGA monitor, USB keyboard, and USB mouse plugged into it for the setup. It also had a wired network connection, though it includes a wireless network card that had no problem with either my 2.4GHz or 5GHz networks.
The BIOS was four revisions behind Intel's latest, but updating it (via SD card, from the menu that appeared when booting) was very easy. The only change I made to the BIOS settings initially was to set the OS to Linux.
Installing Ubuntu GNOME 16.10, from an SD card formatted by another Ubuntu installation's Startup Disk Creator, was simplicity itself. Other than the questions the installer asked to set up the initial account and other settings, it was all automatic, and everything just worked (but read on).
I did have two problems with it. The first was an internal overheating problem when I was transferring about a terabyte of information from a portable USB3 hard drive (plugged into the front of the machine) to the drives in the USB3 drive enclosure (plugged into the back). Moving the drive enclosure's USB plug to the front of the machine (which a comment elsewhere suggested might be less sensitive to thermal problems) and changing the BIOS fan setting to "cool" solved those; likely the BIOS setting alone would have fixed it, but I haven't confirmed that yet. I still can't hear the fan in it, even listening very closely, but your mileage may vary.
The second problem was that after the drives in the Orico enclosure had been unused for a little while, the machine seemed to lose track of them. It wouldn't reconnect until I powered the Orico enclosure off and on again, or unplugged it and plugged it back in. It turned out to happen when the machine put the USB ports into power-saving mode, and was pretty easy to fix by having the machine run these commands when the system booted:
echo 'on' > '/sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1/power/control';
echo 'on' > '/sys/bus/usb/devices/usb2/power/control';
(They're run via a script started by an @reboot cron job, run as the root user.) I don't know if that is a bug in the Orico enclosure's USB firmware or the NUC's, but I didn't have that problem with the three portable USB drives (two USB3, one USB2, all from different manufacturers) I've tried on it.
Now that those problems are fixed, I'm very happy with the unit. With enough shopping around, I *might* have been able to build a similarly-spec'd small tower machine at a comparable price, but poking around on various parts websites, it wouldn't have been easy, and certainly wouldn't have been as low on electricity usage. As I already had the Orico drive enclosure (the dead machine that the NUC replaced was a micro-tower, and too small to hold them too), the lack of internal space for the 4TB drives was no hardship.
The problems I had with it aren't likely to hit many people, so I'd recommend this machine to anyone technical enough to install the memory, hard drive, and OS.