Gigabyte BRIX i7-5500

New Gigabyte BRIX GB-BXi7-5500 is the only nettop available now on Ukrainian market with Intel Core i7 CPU. Intel NUC 5i7RYH still not there. Therefore, I decide to get Gigabyte BRIX i7-5500 and among other compare it to my old Intel NUC D54250

Box

Device

It is actually very similar to Intel NUC.

Inside

With RAM and HDD installed device looks like:

Another Side.

SSD Speed

Samsung SSD 840EVO mSATA 1TB

Windows 7 Performance

BRIX i7-5500 vs NUC i5-4250

	BRIX i7-5500U	NUC i5-4250U
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit)	Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit)
Motherboard	Gigabyte BRIX GB-BXi7-5500	INTEL NUC D54250WYK
CPU	Intel Core i7-5500U @ 2.40 GHz	Intel Core i5-4250U @ 1.90 GHz
CPU features	2 core, L1:64KB, L2:512MB, L3:4MB	2 core, L1:64KB, L2:512KB, L3:3MB
Memory	16 GB DDR3 1866	16 GB DDR3 1600
HDD	1 TB mSATA SSD	480 GB mSATA SSD
Graphic Card	Intel HD Graphics 5500 up to 2 GB	Intel HD Graphics 5000 up to 1 GB
Wireless	Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3160	Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260

	BRIX	NUC
Passmark PT 8.0	2535	2307
Geekbench 3	6100	4441
PCMark 8	2720	2403
3DMark 11 CG	5850	5173
3DMark Vintage	5837	5405
3DMark 06	8979	6170

Known issues

AMIBIOS: If set UEFI Video and Windows 7 OS computer will no longer boot OS and also give no access to BIOS.

To fix that BIOS settings reset may be done by unplug battery.