Posts by Meridius

Quote from hcliec001

the SER9? it costs an arm and a leg, are you serious about buying a machine? I've helped you so much on kodi forums, and you just think of another box. a box like K12 or Firebat, won't be so loud. they are running a 4nm node, they have quiet mode, and the work these machines will be doing is so little. you even have examples of how to make them even quieter, if you really dead set on quiet machine get the K15
https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/gmktec-k…t-store-5028476

that's 15W TDP. should handle everything DV FEL you can throw at it, only thing is I don't think it does 3d as you need AMD chipset. it's far more capable than the 3500U that dev said would be fine.

you don't have access to the k12 anymore either.

and these are the prices for a SER9

You could have gotten a K12 and added the fan mod to have it literally silent
but way to late for that, if you don't buy anything in the next couple of days, you won't have anything on offer and looking at $500 rather than the $300 you could have had

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The thing is

1. The intel chipsets do not do full hdmi 2.1 support

2. The reason I keep holding of buying the k12 because I read this on some posts

"The top fan is a tad noisy sadly its sort of got a mind of its own some days its ok and others clicky noise, I have had a few K12s and K15 myself and its got the same fan/heatsink and case set up.

Bottom cpu fan is ok, with the original K12 bios you can set to 20-30% if you are doing non gaming and its silent enough from say 1 metre away. Id advise to stick with original bios, the newer ones changed the fan noise profile and you won't get that percentage scale back."

So some say they are not ok and others say they are plus they altered the bios for the fan speed so not sure why

3. I bet the k12 will be on sale again

i do appreciate the help but these boxes are very cheap and I just Don’t get why they are so cheap. Are they poor build quality or is there some sort of longevity of the boxes.

I am just trying to look at all angles and seeing which is the best option for me

I am starting to really look at the Beelink SER9 as this system seems to have the best quiet solution or even the SER10 a lot more cash but this is the only options left for me if I want the best possible quiet machine

Anyone had a beelink what they like they do look quality to be fair

Quote from ashlar

The problem with 10 bit is specific to the NUC 11 line. It shouldn't exist on following series (I'm not even sure it concerns the whole 11 line but there are some reports online, aside from mine).

Akasa cases are the best for the NUC line, by far. I have one for my miniserver and one for the NUC 11 I use for LibreELEC. They are of excellent quality and offer perfect thermal dissipation.

For a NUC14 Pro, look no further than:

https://akasa.co.uk/update.php?tpl…el=A-NUC102-M1B

It adds to the cost of the machine, obviously. And if you need WiFi/Bluetooth you need to buy external antennas (which the case supports) and cabling.

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I have been looking at them cases the thing is time you buy a nuc and strip it you can actually buy a cou and motherboard and get the Akasa case to fit it at the same price.

Quote from the_jaguar

If the box doesn't have CEC, I believe WOL (wake on lan) should work to wake the box up. I feel we should be able to automate this with harmony remotes or apps on the phone

Can you not wake the K12 with WOL ? I know you cannot wake a pc with the remote flirc dongle well my old pc you could not

Quote from ashlar

As far as I know, no NUC has ever supported HDMI 2.1 (FRL), only the old TMDS variant, stuck at 18Gbps. But, again, there's no content available for it. And high framerate content seems definitely dead in the water, as far as all evidence is concerned.

Someone mentioned a bout 8bit only and cannot do 10bit ? Not sure if all these 4K Dolby vision HDR are in 10bit.

Been looking at passive pc cases and they seem like gold Dust to. Nothing in stock and you can get a passive cpu heatsink for normal pc cases but are all to bulky.

The intel seems like the best bet and strip it and get a passive heatsink case but not cheap

Quote from ashlar

Which is exactly what I explained. Even HDMI 2.0 uses TMDS (as opposed to HDMI 2.1 FRL for higher bandwidth content). Manufacturers are allowed to call those outputs HDMI 2.1 (TMDS) because, as I've stated and I love to repeat, HDMI consortium is a joke and decidedly consumer unfriendly.

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You could playback content at 4K60 8 bit color depth. I'm unsure if it would support 4K60 10 bit color depth, I suspect not.

But, basically, for whatever content currently available, you would be ok.

Is this a processor limitation or the motherboard. As I could go a different route and instead of a nuc get a motherboard with the same chip that supports 2.1 as you can get passive case for mini pc motherboards ?

Quote from ashlar

All NUCs still have HDMI 2.0 (they advertise 2.1 because the HDMI consortium is a joke but they're limited to 2.0 specs at 18Gbps), plus CEC is limited to on/off functionality (which it ain't nothing).

Apart from that, it should be absolutely a beast with LibreELEC. My NUC 11 i3 has no problems with it (except a color bit depth issue that appears to be limited to series 11), so I imagine a 14 with an i7 would fly.

Really. That’s a joke as I have been researching and find many passive heatsink cases for the nuc to make them silent. One step forward two steps back. Are any of there nuc hdmi 2.1 how they getting away with that.

Just out of interest would it make a difference for 4K 60 playback and the colour depth works fine either way series 14 ?

Thanks

Quote from ashlar

All NUCs still have HDMI 2.0 (they advertise 2.1 because the HDMI consortium is a joke but they're limited to 2.0 specs at 18Gbps), plus CEC is limited to on/off functionality (which it ain't nothing).

Apart from that, it should be absolutely a beast with LibreELEC. My NUC 11 i3 has no problems with it (except a color bit depth issue that appears to be limited to series 11), so I imagine a 14 with an i7 would fly.

Any thoughts on the ASUS NUC 14 Pro+ with Intel Core Ultra 7 ? Seems similar cpu and cpu performance to the k12

Noticed it has CEC-HDMI support to