Best Option For Lost cost HTPC

charper85 · Jan 2, 2017

Right now Im looking at the Intel NUC NUC5CPYH and the MSI Intel Celeron N3160 (Cubi N-010BUS). Which one is the better pick(PRICE/PERFORMANCE/Quality? I will be running win 10 64, 4gb ram. 64 gb ssd. I will have apps runnnig auto boot Kodi and teamviewer(for easy maintenance). Is it worth saving 25 bux and going with nuc dual core, will i be losing a lot of performance running in this config with two cores?

Lutfij · Jan 2, 2017

The MSI CUBI N-010bus has the option to use an M.2 device meaning you can populate it with some fast higher capacity SSD as well as a 2.5" laptop drive and with today's content's you can store your media on a large 2/3TB 2.5" HDD. The Intel NUC only has provision for one 2.5" HDD alone. I'd say go for the MSI option.

charper85 · Jan 2, 2017

Lutfij :

Yeah I like the hard drive options as well, I have .m2 drives but I think this use the longer version... How is the difference specified? Im not seeing the designation

Lutfij · Jan 2, 2017

MSI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8UXUbv5j0o
in the video you'll notice a slot above the Wifi card that accepts an [strike]M.2 card[/strike] mSATA ssd while you have the specs here

Intel:

and it's specs.

charper85 · Jan 2, 2017

Lutfij :

Thank you for your help, I'm definitely going with the msi box. Thx again

Lutfij · Jan 2, 2017

+ Thank YOU for awarding my post as the Best Solution. No problems. If you'd like please post a followup to your purchase and ofc the storage which I hope you've noticed is mSATA and not M.2

charper85 · Jan 2, 2017

Lutfij :

mosdef, will probably be within a month. Thx again. yes I also have taken notice of the msata spec.

Lutfij · Jan 2, 2017

Will look forward to it!

Keep the OS on the mSATA drive while you can have the HDD storage as your media library

charper85 · Jan 9, 2017

I ended up repurposing a ASUS CHROMEBOX-M004U, I added the 64gb msata drive and replaced the bios firmware with MATTDEVO's custom uefi so I can install windows 10 with no driver issue. This was for a co worker, me personally I have SHUTTLE XH61V. Thx for the help, saved me money and time. I still want to try this build out in the future.

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