Hi Matt, What desktop did you use? .. what is the graphics performance like on that box.
Cheers, Bernie On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 5:11 AM, Matthew Dillon <[email protected]> wrote: > I worked up Intel's recent Kabylake NUC with DragonFlyBSD and it tested > out very well. This is the NUC715BNK (slim or tall version). Just about > everything I care about worked. Only the sdcard slot and the IR receiver > don't. Ethernet, Wifi, dual display, USB, sound, storage... all work. > > This is what I tested: > > https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N4EP1N0/ref=oh_aui_ > detailpage_o02_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 > > https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B015HQ9VEM/ref=oh_aui_ > detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 > > https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01G3HLP0C/ref=oh_aui_ > search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 > > Basically this NUC has a standard Wifi (if_iwn driver and iwn8265fw > firmware), standard ethernet, dual display output that can drive two 4K > monitors at 60hz (HDMI and USB-C -> DP1.2), sound, four USB ports, and a > M.2 slot for a NVMe drive on the motherboard. The slim version can only > hold the NVMe card, while the fatter version has room for a 2.5" SSD in > addition to the NVMe card. I've been using the NUC as my workstation for > the last week (driving two 4K monitors) and it works very well with xterms, > chrome, and YouTube. > > There are two very nice things about this NUC verses earlier NUCs. First, > it isn't underpowered. The cpu is a 2-core/4-thread 2.2 GHz Kabylake, but > it turbo's to 3.4 GHz on both cores (all four threads), and pretty much > stays turboed the whole time which makes it equivalent in power to an older > Haswell i3-4130 desktop cpu. Second, Intel finally got the Memo and put a > proper M.2 slot on the motherboard that can accomodate a full-sized NVMe > SSD (you don't have to put their stupid Optane junk in the slot, a normal > NVMe card works well and it will boot from it). Mind you, it isn't a > game-playing machine... this is a NUC after all. But its a wonderful > low-profile desktop/workstation. I have it mounted under my desk. > > In terms of sound, its standard like most machines these days. I did have > a problem with hum on the stereo outpu jack (channel 0)t, but channel 1 > runs through the HDMI and that works perfectly via the the stereo output on > the monitor. Other than that, I am quite impressed. > > Any NVMe SSD will work, I just threw in a random card I had on my shelf. > I'm not advocating the Toshiba. The best NVMe SSDs today are from Samsung > and Micron/Crucial. Standard EFI boot. > > -Matt >
