Celeron J3455 worth it on a budget?

vaughng · June 21, 2023 at 11:30 AM

I've read through some of the forum posts but the information i found is somewhat outdated. I currently have a Tanix TX6 but it crashes when idle (seemingly no fix possible) and I'm looking to replace it. I am highly budget restricted (think $80 max).

I've found some used Celeron J3455 Mini PCs for $50 each and was wondering if they would still be okay for native playback from my library (low bitrate 4K and 1080p h264/h265 on an NFS share) and Netflix/YouTube? I don't need anything fancy like HDR. All my media plays perfectly on the TX6 and RPi4.

Thanks.

gadget_guy · June 22, 2023 at 6:08 PM

You can actually buy a Intel NUC NUC6CAY for $30 on ebay right now, it has that same processor.

I've never actually tried one, but the GPU in that celeron does have hardware based H265 decoding, so it should work for what you need.