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
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.
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