Intel NUC D54250WYK

Introduction

Most annoying issue about my old PC was that it cannot playback 1080/60p and 4K video smoothly. Since 3D was not in use last couple of years I decide to switch from discrete graphics to internal. Also after some market investigation I decide to switch from classic desktops to nettop. So I was trying to buy nettop that will give me at least same computing power as previous PC but also gives me 4K and 1080/60p video playback. I chose Intel NUC Kit D54250WYK.

Inside Intel NUC

I did add 2x8GB DDR3 1600 and Crucial M500 480 GB mSATA drive and did some tests.

SSD Speed

Windows 7 performance

Passmark PerformanceTest v8

Also did some tests to compare with previous PC. Results in short: about same FPS in 3D, faster video playback (compressed 4K is OK), faster load, 90 times smaller (in volume), 20 times lighter, 10 times less power consumption, less noise. Details below:

Compare to old PC

	OLD PC	NEW NETTOP
Operating System	Windows 8.1 (32-bit)	Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit)
Motherboard	ASUS P5K-E (Intel P35)	INTEL  NUC D54250WYK
CPU	Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 @ 2.67 GHz	Intel Core i5-4250U @ 1.90 GHz
CPU features	2 core, L1:64KB, L2:6MB, L3:0MB	2 core, L1:64KB, L2:512KB, L3:3MB
Memory	4 GB DDR2	16 GB DDR3
HDD	1 TB SATA 7200 RPM	480 GB mSATA SSD
Graphic Card	nVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB	Intel HD Graphics 5000 up to 1 GB

	OLD PC	NETTOP
Geekbench 3	2448	4441
PCMark 8	2080	2403
3DMark 11 CG	4108	5173
3DMark Vintage	5522	5405
3DMark 06	10559	6170

	OLD PC	NETTOP
Idle, Watt	116	7
Office, Watt	147	15
3D Mark, Watt	205	37

	OLD PC	NETTOP
power on time, sec	60	20
weight, kg*	16,3	0,7
size, cm	54x44x21	12x12x4

* 0.5 kg without external power supply.