![]() There’s a long-running bug report here.įor those who are interested, the complete boot log is here. Bitstreaming of HD audio formats to an amplifier does not work on any Apollo Lake or Kaby Lake NUCs (problem exist on ASrock/MSI and other products with similar components as well) when connecting via the HDMI 2.0 port. GPU, WiFi, Bluetooth, Ethernet adapter were all working fine. The kernel on the long-term supported 16.04 version does not fully support Kaby Lake.Īnyhow, the installation was fine. I’m mainly a Ubuntu-man so I did install the Ubuntu 16.10 on the NUC. Stressing both the CPU and the GPU simultaneously seems to be the way to reach peak consumption.ĭue to the latest Intel GPU and the WiFi chip you’ll need a fairly recent kernel. I never saw the NUC break the 60-watt mark and that makes sense as the power supply is rated up to 65 watts. I’ve also bought a watt meter to provide you some power consumption figures! The following figures were measured using a Brennenstuhl EM240 watt meter. When the power of a sound source is doubled the sound level increases by 3 dB. It’s worth noting that 39 decibels is really quite much more than 33 decibels even if the numbers do not seem so much different. (CPU temperature reaches 100 degrees C occasionally) I’ll try to do so with my future NUCs so hopefully the numbers can be compared between my measurements. I’ve measured from the front of the NUC with the microphone of the meter 50 cm away from the front panel. I’m also pretty sure that the numbers produced are not comparable with numbers produced by someone else in their tests. I’m pretty sure that my completely unscientific approach is quite laughable for the people who actually do this kind of thing for living. All my testing is done at my home with ventilation turned off. Maybe attached behind a monitor it’d be more quiet?ĭue to popular request I’ve actually bought a cheapo UNI-T UT353 sound meter to get you some actual figures. I’m pretty allergic to fan noise and really would not like to put one on my desktop where it’s clearly audible. As a result the small fan does spin up more often and you can hear it. The 28W Core i7 CPU has been crammed in almost the same enclosure that works wonders with the 15W Core i3 and i5 models. What about the NUC in question here, the NUC7i7BNH? Well, I’d say it’s on par with the Skull Canyon. However, you wouldn’t classify that one as a quiet PC either. The Skull Canyon NUC in 2016 was quite a bit better in that case. It did sound like a jet engine too soon and at least for me was the most significant turn off with that model. The fan went from idle to full speed in a second as soon as all cores were being utilized. ![]() Some might remember that the fan behaviour of the NUC5i7RYH back in 2015 was quite interesting. Keeping a hot Core i7 CPU cool in a tiny enclosure is a difficult task and Intel has not always seen stellar success in that. ![]()
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